Agallis of Kerkyra

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Agallis of Kerkyra was a Greek philosopher from the school of grammarians . She lived in the second or third century BC. BC and was a contemporary of Aristophanes of Byzantium .

Life

Agallis lived and worked in Alexandria . Athenaius reported that Agallis had written a work on Homer . In it, she describes Nausicaa as the inventor of the ball game. In addition, the story of the creation of Attica is shown on the shield of Achilles .

At Suidas , Agallis is called Anagallis . Josef Poestion writes that Ptolemy Jemaluddin , an Arab writer, dedicated his book on Aristotle to her. Presumably Ptolemy from Alexandria was meant, who was also a grammarian of the 2nd century BC. He commented on Homer's work and Agallis himself wrote about Aristotle.

Occasionally, Agallias from Kerkyra is mentioned as her father, but in fact it is a masculinization of her name.

literature

  • Athenaios, I 14
  • Johann C. Eberti: Opened cabinet of the learned women = room. 1706
  • JC Poestion: Greek women philosophers. 1885

swell

  • Maria Nühlen: Agallis from Kerkyra. In: Ursula I. Meyer and Heidemarie Bennent-Vahle (eds.): Philosophinnen-Lexikon. Reclam, Leipzig 1997, ISBN 3-379-01584-9
personal data
SURNAME Agallis of Kerkyra
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Anagallis; Agallias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION ancient Greek philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd century BC BC or 2nd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 3rd century BC BC or 2nd century BC Chr.