Abstract
When studying the history of linguistics, two options seem to be obvious: on the one hand, a better insight is gained into the sciences which have contributed to the development of modern linguistics, while, on the other hand, we can almost rediscover those studies, which are not part of the linguistic tradition in the West. This article is a schematic portrayal of some linguistic sciences of the Antiquity. Part of these can easily be placed within the Western epistemological context, since, in many aspects, they represent the very origins of this tradition. Such historical perspective, however, proves to be much more problematic with some other sciences or their studies, such as semiotics and so-called metaphysical etymology, for instance. Questions arising in such cases are: How to study these sciences? How to define them? Is it at all reasonable to study them?
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