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Edition and Commentaries on Homer

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Known · Attestedin Alexandria?Conjecturedvery likely class

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I · The entry, in his form

In the table of Epic and hexameter poetry: “critical edition and commentary”

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Aristarchus of Samothrace

c. 216–144 BCE. The greatest of the Alexandrian critics, tutor to the royal children and head of the Library until 145 BCE, when he fled Ptolemy VIII to Cyprus and died there. The Homeric text settled in his time: papyri show the unruly early Homer, with its extra lines, giving way to a text of standard length from about 150 BCE.

Edition and Commentaries on Homer

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Opening words not preserved.

Length: not counted

Above, his entry form, filled from what we know. Below, ours.

II · Does it survive? Where to read it

Survives in fragments

Known through the scholia, especially the Venetus A manuscript, which preserves his critical signs.

Was it in Alexandria?

Known · Attested

Written in Alexandria.

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IV · Sources and the living entry

Ancient references (3)
  • Suda α 3892
  • Athenaeus 4.184b-c
  • P.Oxy. X 1241
Modern scholarship (2)
  • F. Schironi, The Best of the Grammarians: Aristarchus of Samothrace on the Iliad (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018).
  • R. Pfeiffer, History of Classical Scholarship from the Beginnings to the End of the Hellenistic Age (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968)

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