Iulius Pollux

Iulius Pollux ( Greek Ιούλιος Πολυδεύκης Ioúlios Polydeúkēs ; * in the 2nd century in Naukratis , Egypt; † allegedly at the age of 58 in the 2nd or 3rd century) was a Greek scholar of the "Second Sophistics " who worked in Athens around 190 as a grammaticus . He came from Naukratis in Egypt.

The judgments of his contemporaries are disparaging, Lukian of Samosata calls him ignorant and a "student of rhetoric". He has received a lexicon consisting of ten books, the Onomasticon , whose meaning in the multitude of information it contains, e.g. B. about theater masks, musical instruments and harmony, the Attic judiciary, but also about private life in antiquity, z. B. children's games and equipment.

expenditure

Erich Bethe (ed.): Pollucis Onomasticon. Leipzig 1900–1937
Wilhelm Dindorf (Ed.): Julii Pollucis Onomasticon cum annotationibus interpretum. 3 volumes, Leipzig 1824 (Greek with Latin introduction; digitized version )

literature

Erich Bethe : Iulius 398 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume X, 1, Stuttgart 1918, Sp. 773-779 ..
Eleanor Dickey: Ancient Greek Scholarship. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-531292-8 , p. 96
Simone Follet: Pollux (Polydeukès) de Naucratis (Iulius) . In: Richard Goulet (ed.): Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques , Vol. 5, Part 2, CNRS Éditions, Paris 2012, ISBN 978-2-271-07399-0 , pp. 1215-1217
Krystyna Stebnicka: Iulios Polydeukes (Iulius Pollux). In: Paweł Janiszewski, Krystyna Stebnicka, Elżbieta Szabat: Prosopography of Greek Rhetors and Sophists of the Roman Empire. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2015, ISBN 978-0-19-871340-1 , p. 306

personal data
SURNAME	Pollux, Iulius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Polydeukes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Greek-speaking writer
DATE OF BIRTH	2nd century
PLACE OF BIRTH	Naukratis , Egypt
DATE OF DEATH	2nd century or 3rd century