Basilides (grammarian)

Basilides (Ancient Greek: Βασιλείδης) was a grammarian of ancient Greece. He wrote a work on the dialect of Homer (περὶ λέξεως Ὁμηρικῆς), of which an epitome was later made by a writer named Cratinus. The work is quoted several times in the lexical encyclopedia known as the Etymologicum Magnum, but both the original work and its epitome are lost.[1]

His time is unknown, though modern scholars believe he lived in either the imperial period or late antiquity.[2]

References

  1. ^ Etymologicum Magnum, s.v. Βασιλείδης
  2. ^ Matthaios, Stephanos (2020). "Greek Scholarship in the Imperial Era and Late Antiquity". In Montanari, Franco (ed.). History of Ancient Greek Scholarship: From the Beginnings to the End of the Byzantine Age. Brill Publishers. p. 354. ISBN 9789004430570. Retrieved 25 December 2025.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, Philip (1870). "Basileides (1)". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 465.

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