III · The Great Librarians · c. 175–145 BCE
Homer's text settles in Aristarchus's time
Known · Attested
Aristarchus of Samothrace, tutor to the royal children, writes his editions and commentaries on Homer. Papyri show the unruly early text settling to a standard length from about 150 BCE, though the common text does not follow most of his readings.
Who and what
- Places
- The royal Library
- Works
- Homer, Iliad
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Sources (5)
- P.Oxy. X 1241 (ed. B. P. Grenfell and A. S. Hunt, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri X, London 1914) col. ii (opens in a new tab)
- Suda α 3892
- R. Pfeiffer, History of Classical Scholarship from the Beginnings to the End of the Hellenistic Age (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968) 210–233
- R. S. Bagnall, "Alexandria: Library of Dreams", Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 146.4 (2002) 348–362 360
- M. L. West, Studies in the Text and Transmission of the Iliad (Munich: K. G. Saur, 2001)