@inbook{f3a777856edb4fa4a0abb0875e554693,
title = "Pythagoras, the Philosopher and Grammar Teacher (Br. Lib. Add. MS 37516 recto)",
abstract = "The paper is about a chreia—a one-liner used as a grammatical exercise sentence—that presents Pythagoras as proscribing an expression from admissible linguistic usage. This injunction is funny, because it can be construed as Pythagoras railing against the use of a particular variant form of an adjective—and also as against the use of items denoted by that adjective. In the paper I add to this line of interpretation the further point that the chreia also claims that in this latter construal the injunction was Pythagoras{\textquoteright}s signature insight, making him the philosopher that he was.",
keywords = "Ancient grammarians on morphology, Autonymy, Classroom exercises, Epic language, Jokes, Mention and use, Pythagoras, Vegetarianism, chreia",
author = "Istv{\'a}n Bodn{\'a}r",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.",
year = "2023",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-031-15026-5\_1",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783031150258",
series = "International Archives of the History of Ideas/Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees",
publisher = "Springer Nature",
pages = "3--19",
editor = "Hochschild, \{Joshua P. \} and Nevitt, \{Turner C. \} and Wood, \{Adam \} and Borb{\'e}ly, \{G{\'a}bor \}",
booktitle = "Metaphysics Through Semantics",
}