Aelius Herodianus (Ancient Greek: Αἴλιος Ἡρωδιανός) or Herodian (fl.
2nd century CE) was a Greek historian[1] and one of the most celebrated grammarians of Greco-Roman antiquity.
[1] From there he seems to have moved to Rome, where he gained the favour of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, to whom he dedicated a work on prosody.
Herodian was held in very high esteem by subsequent grammarians; Priscian describes him as maximus auctor artis grammaticae ("the greatest creator of grammatical art").
The main works attached to his name (both rightly and wrongly) are as follows (the most usual way of citing each title is highlighted in bold): Earlier publications: