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Julius Pollux (Greek: Ἰούλιος Πολυδεύkης, Ioulios Polydeukes; fl. 2nd century) was a Greek[1][2][3][4] grammarian and sophist, scholar and rhetorician, 2nd century AD, from Naukratis, Egypt. Emperor Commodus appointed him a professor-chair of rhetoric in Athens at the Academy — on account of his melodious voice, according to Philostratus' Lives of the Sophists.
Contents
1 Works
2 Appreciation by contemporaries
3 Editions
4 Translations
5 Notes
6 References
7 External links
Works
Nothing of his rhetorical works has survived except some of their titles (in the Suda).
Pollux was the author of the Onomasticon (Ὀνομαστιkόν), a Greek thesaurus or dictionary of Attic synonyms and phrases, arranged not alphabetically but according to subject-matter, in ten books. It supplies in passing much rare and valuable information on many points of classical antiquity — objects in daily life, the theater, politics — and quotes numerous fragments of lost works. Thus, Julius Pollux became invaluable for William Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, 1842, etc.
Appreciation by contemporaries
Pollux was probably the person satirized by Lucian as a worthless and ignorant person who gains a reputation as an orator by sheer effrontery, and pilloried in his Lexiphanes, a satire upon the affectation of obscure and obsolete words.
Editions
1502, ed. by Aldus Manutius in Venice. Re-edited at 1520 by Lucantonio Giunta and at 1536 by Simon Grynaeus in Basel.
