ARISTARCHUS OF SAMOTHRACE

sămˈəthrās, c.217–c.145 b.c., Greek scholar, successor to his teacher, Aristophanes of Byzantium, as librarian at Alexandria. He was an innovator of scientific scholarship, and his critical revision of Homer is responsible for the excellent texts of Homer that survive. Though only fragments of his works survive (he is said to have written more than 800 volumes of commentary and exegesis), frequent quotations by ancient critics provide an insight into his subjects and method. His works cover such writers as Alcaeus, Anacreon, Pindar, Hesiod, and the tragedians.

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From Polis to Empire, the Ancient World, C. 800 B.C.-A.D. 500: A Biographical Dictionary
Book by Andrew G. Traver; Greenwood Press, 2002
Subjects: History, Ancient--Dictionaries
...and mythological verse. His works were originally edited in ten volumes by *Aristophanes of Byzantium and *Aristarchus of Samothrace; today they only survive in fragments. He wrote in a simple direct style, using two-to four-line stanzas in...
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The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature
Book by M. C. Howatson; Oxford University Press, 1989
Subjects: Classical Dictionaries, Classical Literature--Dictionaries
...PRESS Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the Universitys objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide in Oxford...
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The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature
Book by Paul Harvey; Clarendon Press, 1937
Subjects: Classical Dictionaries, Classical Literature--Dictionaries
...librarians of Alexandria were Zenodotus ft. c. 285 B.C. , Eratosthenes fl. c. 234 , Aristophanes of Byzantium fl. c. 195 , and Aristarchus fl. c. 180 qq.v. . Callimachus and Apollonius Rhodius qq.v. are sometimes mentioned as among...
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The Ancient World: A Beginning
Book by T. R. Glover; Macmillan, 1935
Subjects: History, Ancient
...DALLAS ATLANTA SAN FRANCISCO The Winged Victory of Samothrace THE ANCIENT WORLD A BEGINNING by T. R. GLOVER...PLATES I. The Winged Victory of Samothrace Photo: Fleming frontispiece II. Athens...
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Strabo of Amasia: A Greek Man of Letters in Augustan Rome
Book by Daniela Dueck; Routledge, 2000
Subjects: Augustus--Emperor Of Rome--63 B.C.-14 A.D--Influence, Geographers--Italy--Rome--Biography, Geography, Ancient, Rome--History--Augustus, 30 B.C.-14 A.D, Strabo, Strabo--Geography
...Menecrates who studied with Aristarchus of Samothrace, a central Homeric commentator...Stoic Crates of Mallus, Aristarchus of Samothrace, Apollodorus of Athens...eyes of the geographer. Aristarchus of Samothrace 9 was a contemporary...
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The Beautiful Nation: Reflections on the Aesthetics of Hellenism
Journal article by Costas M. Constantinou; Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, Vol. 31, 2006
Subjects: Aesthetics--Analysis, Hellenism--Analysis, Hellenism--Myths and legends
...References to Hellas in the Odyssey, depicting a much wider area (1:344; 4:726, 816; 15:80), have been rejected by Aristarchus of Samothrace, head of the Alexandrian Library, in his critical recessions of the different Homeric versions available in...


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Aristarchus of Samothrace
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ARISTARCHUS OF SAMOTHRACE ar istar k s, sam thras, c.217 c.145...successor to his teacher, Aristophanes of Byzantium, as librarian at Alexandria. He was an innovator of scientific scholarship, and his critical...
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Aristophanes of Byzantium
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and reputedly invented the Greek diacritical marks. Aristarchus of Samothrace was his pupil. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Alexandria , City, Egypt
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...contain c.700,000 rolls. A great university grew around the museum and attracted many scholars, including Aristarchus of Samothrace , the collator of the Homeric texts; Euclid , the mathematician; and Herophilus , the anatomist, who founded...


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