Lysimachus (grammarian)
Lysimachus was a 200 BC Living Greek grammarian and mythographer .
Life
Since Lysimachus knew the writings of Periegete Mnaseas of Patara and was himself a source for the epigrammatic poet Alkaios of Messene , he is believed to have been around 200 BC. Have lived. In some scholia about ancient Greek poets he is referred to as "the Alexandrian". This epithet can most likely be explained by the fact that he worked as a scholar in Alexandria ; but it is also possible that it was named that way because of its origins in this city. Otherwise nothing is known about his life.
Works
Lysimachos wrote at least three books of travel sagas (Greek Nostoi ). The content of this mythographic work, as well as that of his collection of Theban miracle stories (Synagoge ton Thebaikon paradoxon), which comprises at least 13 books, is a list of the oldest versions of legends of Greek mythology , whereby Lysimachus was important to cite his sources precisely and to use his own embellishments dispense. He portrayed the destruction of Troy and the journeys home of the Greek heroes from there, but also the fate of Aeneas . That Lysimachus achieved a great achievement of scholarly work with his writings can be seen from surviving scholias of Greek poets such as Sophocles and Euripides . The quotations in works by well-known commentators such as Didymos Chalkenteros , Servius , Eustathios and Theon underline this assessment. Lysimachus also wrote two books on Plagiarism of Ephorus (Peri tes Ephorou klopes) .
Lysimachus as a text witness with Flavius Josephus
Controversial is the question of whether it is in the treated here Lysimachos to those Lysimachos is that the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus , in his work over the originality of Judaism as anti-Semitic characterized, with Flavius Josephus it in Book 1 (304-311) and Book 2 (16, 20, 145 and 236) refers to the remarks of a Lysimachus in his book Aigyptiaka .
In this context, Folker Siegert refers to the text Pseudo-Hekataios I , which dates from around 100 BC. BC possibly in response to the anti-Jewish script of Lysimachus was written.
The ancient historian Felix Jacoby also speaks out against equating the author of the Aigyptiaka with the Lysimachus treated here and therefore assigns the surviving fragments of the Aegyptiaka a different number in his collection of fragments of Greek historians than the other works of Lysimachus.
Edition of the fragments
- Felix Jacoby : The Fragments of the Greek Historians , No. 382 and No. 621 (Aigyptiaka) .
literature
- Oskar Dreyer: Lysimachos 4. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 3, Stuttgart 1969, Col. 841 f.
- Alfred Gudeman : Lysimachos 20. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XIV, 1, Stuttgart 1928, Sp. 32-39.
- Folker Siegert: Flavius Josephus: About the originality of Judaism (Contra Apionem) . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-525-54206-4 .
- Vol. 1: First collation of the entire tradition (Greek, Latin, Armenian), literary-critical analysis and German translation (writings of the Institutum Judaicum Delitzschianum 6.1) .
- Vol. 2: Additions, notes, Greek text (writings of the Institutum Judaicum Delitzschianum 6.2) .
Individual evidence
- ^ Alfred Gudeman : Lysimachos 20). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XIV, 1, Stuttgart 1928, Col. 33 f.
- ↑ Scholien zu Apollonios von Rhodes 1, 558; Scholien to Sophocles , Oedipus on Colonos 91.
- ↑ a b Folker Siegert: Flavius Josephus: About the originality of Judaism, vol. 1 . Pp. 43-44.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lysimachus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek grammarian and mythographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd century BC BC or 2nd century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd century BC BC or 2nd century BC Chr. |