Grammar

In the Greco-Roman context, grammar is not only the study of language and its rules, but also what we would now call literary studies. In particular, pupils would study poetry – and to a lesser extent prose authors – under a grammarian after learning to read, and before potentially going on to study rhetoric. Some, however, devoted their entire careers to grammatical learning, and as such were also the peers or rivals of other specialists, such as rhetoricians and philosophers.