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Alexander Aetolus. Alexander Aetolus ( Ancient Greek: Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Αἰτωλός, Alexandros ho Aitōlos) or Alexander the Aetolian was a Hellenistic Greek poet and grammarian, who worked at the Library of Alexandria and composed poetry in a variety of genres, now almost entirely lost. He is the only known Aetolian poet of antiquity.
Alexander Aetolus (flourished c. 280 bc) was a Greek poet and scholar of Pleuron, in Aetolia. He was appointed by Ptolemy II Philadelphus, the Macedonian king of Egypt, to work on the tragedies in the library at Alexandria. Nothing remains of his own tragic writing except the title of one play, Astragalistae (“The Dice Players”), which may ...
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Lycophron. Lycophron ( / ˈlaɪkəfrɒn / LY-kə-fron; Greek: Λυκόφρων ὁ Χαλκιδεύς, translit. Lukóphrōn ho Chalkidéus; born about 330–325 BC [1]) was a Hellenistic Greek tragic poet, grammarian, and commentator on comedy, to whom the poem Alexandra is attributed (perhaps falsely).
Feb 19, 2024 · 19 Note that Alexander of Aetolia and Lycophron of Chalcis were appointed by Ptolemy Philadelphus to correct the texts of the dramatists. Lycophron worked on the comedies, and Alexander worked on the tragedies, along with the satyr plays. 20 Ptolemy was a great lover of literature.
Philology Probably Begins at the Royal Library of Alexandria. Circa 280 BCE. Permalink. Image Source: www.lib.umich.edu. Iliad. Book 10. 421-434, 445-460 (P. Mich. Inv. 6972). Egypt, second century BCE. Commentaries on the Iliad and the Odyssey written during the Hellenistic period at Alexandria began exploring the textual inconsistencies of ...
It is not surprising that, of all the issues raised by the Alexandra, scholars should have devoted most time and effort to historical and geographical problems—to the identification of kings and political leaders lying behind the poet’s riddles (e.g. 1441 ‘the Thesprotian and Chalastrean lion’, 1444 ‘the wolf of Galadra’), to Lycophron’s account of the West and its relation to ...
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May 31, 2011 · Preview ‘Hellenistic’ literature is preserved largely in fragments. Scholars and students have access to annotated bilingual editions of the preserved works of the major poets and of other less prominent Hellenistic authors but the great mass of fragmentary texts, some of them of considerable literary and historical importance, is a field usually reserved for the specialists, who can make ...
