Scribonius Aphrodisius Explained

Scribonius Aphrodisius was a grammarian of ancient Rome. He was originally a slave and disciple of the grammarian Lucius Orbilius Pupillus, who was also the teacher of the Roman poet Horace.^[1] He was purchased by Scribonia, the second wife of the emperor Augustus, and was by her manumitted.^[2] She may have purchased him to educate her children, or possibly herself.^[3]

Aphrodisius is known to have written a treatise on orthography, in opposition to a similar work written by the grammarian Verrius Flaccus,^[4] also a freedman, but this work is now lost.^[5]

Notes and References

1. Encyclopedia: Kaster . R. A.. Hornblower . Simon . Simon Hornblower . Spawforth . Antony . Antony Spawforth . Eidinow . Esther. Esther Eidinow . Scribonius Aphrodisius . The Oxford Classical Dictionary . 1331 . . 2012 . 9780199545568 . 2016-02-21.
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3. Book: Hemelrijk, Emily Ann . Emily Ann Hemelrijk

   . Emily Ann Hemelrijk . Matrona Docta: Educated Women in the Roman Élite from Cornelia to Julia Domna . . Routledge classical monographs . 2004 . 239 . 9780415341271 . 2016-02-21.

4. Book: Fantham, Elaine . Elaine Fantham

   . Elaine Fantham . Julia Augusti . . Women of the Ancient World . 2006 . 23 . 9781134323449 . 2016-02-21.

5. Book: de Cassagnac, Adolphe Granier . Adolphe Granier de Cassagnac

   . Adolphe Granier de Cassagnac . Green . Benjamin Edwards . History of the Working and Burgher Classes . Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger . 1871 . 249 . 9780608421797 . 2016-02-21.