Guardians of Language: The Grammarian and Society in Late Antiquity

Robert A. Kaster

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Berkeley · Los Angeles · Oxford
© 1997 The Regents of the University of California

Preferred Citation: Kaster, Robert A. Guardians of Language: The Grammarian and Society in Late Antiquity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997, c1988 1997. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft8v19p2nc/

ABBREVIATIONS

PART I
• Prologue Anazarbus

LETTERS IN THE WORLD
• Chapter 1 The Guardian and His Burden
Chapter 2 Professio Litterarum

MEDIOCRITY
Chapter 3 The Social Status of the Grammarians

A PLACE TO STAND
• Chapter 4 Pompeius
• Chapter 5 Servius

GENTLEMEN AND SCHOLARS
• Chapter 6 The Social Relations of the Grammarians

PART II PROSOPOGRAPHY
• Grammatici, , Magistri Ludi, and the Like
• Dubii, Falsi, Varii

Appendix 1 Titles, Styles, Circumlocutions: A Selection
Appendix 2 Meaning
Appendix 3 as Epithet and Personal Name
Appendix 4 The Number of Grammarians at Bordeaux
Appendix 5 Geographical-Chronological List of Teachers
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
PREFACE