The Art of Grammar

For works in Latin by this title, see Ars grammatica.

The Art of Grammar (Greek: Τέχνη Γραμματική \- or romanized, Téchnē Grammatikḗ) is a treatise on Greek grammar, attributed to Dionysius Thrax, who wrote in the 2nd century BC.

## Contents[edit]

It is the first work on grammar in Greek, and also the first concerning a Western language.

It sought mainly to help speakers of Koine Greek understand the language of Homer, and other great poets of the past.[1]

It has become a source for how ancient texts should be acted out based on the experience from commonly read ancient authors.[2]

There are six parts to understanding grammar including trained reading by understanding the dialect from certain poetical figures.[3]

There is a nine-part word classification system, which strayed away from the previous eight-part classification system.[4]

It describes morphological structure as containing no middle diathesis.[5]

There is no morphological analysis and the text uses the Word and Paradigm model.[6][7]

## Translation[edit]

It was translated into Syriac by Joseph Huzaya of the school of Nisibis in the 6th century.[8]

It was also translated into Armenian.[9]

## References[edit]

1. ^ "The Art of Grammar", Encyclopædia Britannica. 2010. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 15 July 2010.
2. ^ Mitchell, Jack (2015). "Literary Performance in the Imperial Schoolroom as Historical Reënactment: The Evidence of the Colloquia, Scholia to Canonical Works, and Scholia to the Techne of Dionysius Thrax". American Journal of Philology. 136 (3): 469–502. doi:10.1353/ajp.2015.0012. ISSN 1086-3168. S2CID 170141521.
3. ^ "Die Fragmente des Grammatikers Dionysios Thrax", Die Fragmente des Grammatikers Dionysios Thrax. Die Fragmente der Grammatiker Tyrannion und Diokles. Apions Glossai Homerikai, Berlin, New York: DE GRUYTER, pp. 1–78, 1977, doi:10.1515/9783110855135.1, ISBN 9783110855135, retrieved 2021-12-08
4. ^ Schenkeveld, Dirk M. (1983). "Linguistic Theories in the Rhetorical Works of Dionysius of Halicarnassus". Glotta. 61 (1/2): 67–94. ISSN 0017-1298. JSTOR 40266622.
5. ^ Farina, Margherita. "Diathesis and Middle Voice in the Syriac Ancient Grammatical Tradition: The Translations and Adaptations of the Téchne Grammatiké and the Arabic Model." Aramaic Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, 2008, pp. 175-193.
6. ^ Niederehe, Hans-Josef; Koerner, E. F. K. (1990). History and Historiography of Linguistics: Papers from the Fourth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS IV), Trier, 24-28 August, 1987. John Benjamins Publishing. ISBN 978-90-272-4541-0.
7. ^ Wolanin, Hubert. "Ancient Greeks on compounds: Aristotle, Dionysius Thrax, Apollonius Dyscolus." (2017).
8. ^ Margherita Farina (2008), "Diathesis and Middle Voice in the Syriac Ancient Grammatical Tradition: The Translations and Adaptations of the Téchne Grammatiké and the Arabic Model", Aramaic Studies, 6 (2): 175–193, doi:10.1163/147783508X393039, S2CID 161176275.
9. ^ "Armenian Early Printed Books (armbook)". greenstone.flib.sci.am. Retrieved 2023-12-14.

## External links[edit]

* Greek Wikisource has original text related to this article: Τέχνη Γραμματική
* English Wikisource has original text related to this article: The grammar of Dionysios Thrax
* Art of Grammar in Greek on Bibliotheca Augustana
* The Grammar of Dionysios Thrax, translation by Thomas Davidson
* The Grammar of Dionysius Thrax, translation by Anthony Alcock

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