fl. c. 230 BCE · biographer · scholar
Hermippus of Smyrna
Ἕρμιππος
Known · AttestedA source places them at the Library or under royal patronage.
In Alexandria: c. 230–210 BCE
"The Callimachean", a biographer in Callimachus's line whose lives of philosophers and lawgivers Diogenes Laertius quotes. Pliny says he wrote on magic and indexed the books of verses that went under Zoroaster's name.
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On the shelves
- Hermippus of Smyrna, 'the Callimachean', Lives (of lawgivers, the Seven Sages, Pythagoras, philosophers) and On the Magi · c. 240–200 BCE · Survives in fragments
Moments
- 283/282 BCE · Ptolemy II sole king; Demetrius disgraced Known: probable
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Sources (3)
- Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 2.58f; 5.213f
- Pliny, Natural History 30.4
- Diogenes Laertius 5.78–79