Apollonius eidograph

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Apollonius Eidograph or Apollonios Eidographos ( ancient Greek Ἀπολλώνιος ὁ εἰδογράφος ) († 175 BC ) was an Alexandrian grammarian of the 2nd half of the 3rd century BC. He explained Aristophanes and participated in the ordering of the poems of Pindar .

He is mentioned in the list of the heads of the library of Alexandria in the Oxyrhynchus Papyri 1241 in column 2. Since it was only written in the margin because it was apparently initially forgotten in the list, its classification is not exactly known. He was probably head of the library after Eratosthenes and before Aristarchus of Samothrace . However, whether it should be placed before or after Aristophanes of Byzantium is a matter of dispute. Presumably he was the teacher of Pharaoh Ptolemy V.

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  1. ↑ Scholien zu Pindar Oden to Sieger der Pythischen Games , 2, 1 ( online )
  2. ↑ Bernard Pyne Grenfell , Arthur Surridge Hunt : The Oxyrhynchus papyri , pp. 99–112 ( online )
  3. ↑ Karl Julius Beloch Greek History. The Greek world domination , Volume 4, Berlin and Leipzig 1927, p. 593
  4. ^ Rudolf Blum : Callimachos and the bibliography among the Greeks , Frankfurt am Main 1977, p. 190 ( online )
personal data
SURNAME Apollonius eidograph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Apollonios Eidographos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Alexandrian grammarian
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 175 BC Chr.