Tyrannion of Amisus (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Tyrannion 1st century BCE) was a Greek grammarian brought to Rome as a war captive and slave. Tyrannion was a native of Amisus in Pontus, the son of Epicratides, or according to some accounts, of Corymbus. He was a pupil of Hestiaeus of Amisus, and was originally called Theophrastus, but received from his instructor the name of Tyrannion ("the tyrant") on account of his domineering behaviour to his fellow disciples. He afterwards studied under Dionysius the Thracian at Rhodes.