Aristarchus of Samothrace
Aristarchus of Samothrace ( Greek Ἀρίσταρχος Arístarchos , German also Aristarchus ; * around 216 BC; † 144 BC ) was a well-known Greek philologist and director of the library of Alexandria .
Aristarchus was a student of the philologist Aristophanes of Byzantium , whose successor as head of the library of Alexandria he was. The Egyptian King Ptolemy VI. (180-145 BC) he served as a prince educator , from whose brother Ptolemaios VIII he fled in 145/144 BC. To Cyprus .
Aristarchus' main occupation was grammar and especially literary and textual criticism . He derived the guidelines for his textual criticism from the texts of Homer , the oldest surviving texts in Greek literature, which in his opinion could be regarded as the only reliable guidelines for criticism.
The works of Aristarchus are considered the culmination of ancient philology. Among his most famous students were Apollodorus and Dionysios Thrax , whose grammar was largely based on the results of his teacher.
According to Aristarchus of Samothrace, a "severe critic" is referred to as "Aristarchus".
literature
- Leopold Cohn : Aristarchus 22 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 1, Stuttgart 1895, Col. 862-873.
- Francesca Schironi: The Best of the Grammarians: Aristarchus of Samothrace on the Iliad. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor 2018. - Review by Eleanor Dickey, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 04/35/2019
- Kai Brodersen , Bernhard Zimmermann (ed.): People of the ancient world . JB Metzler, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-476-02023-1 , p. 26 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Aristarchus of Samothrace in the catalog of the German National Library
Remarks
- ↑ Cicero , Ad Atticum 1,14,3; Hieronymus , Epistula 57,12 a. a.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Aristarchus of Samothrace |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Aristarchus of Samothrace |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek philologist, director of the Alexandria library |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 216 BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 144 BC Chr. |