PROTAGORAS AND THE BEGINNINGS OF GRAMMAR

Offering a re-evaluation of all the available evidence, including passages from Aristotle's Rhetoric , Poetics and Sophistici Elenchi Diogenes Laertius’ biographical sketch as well grammar scene in Aristophanes’ Clouds this article argues that Protagoras’ engagement with grammatical questions must have been more sophisticated thorough than is often assumed. In discovery gender, formal considerations – most likely inspired by analysis personal names played fundamental role semantic ones, his typology πυθμένες λόγων equally presupposes recognition at least verbal mood, if not also tense.