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Hermes

Ἑρμῆς

Known · Attestedin Alexandria?Conjecturedvery likely class

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I · The entry, in his form

In the table of Epic and hexameter poetry: “didactic hymn”

Conjecturedvery likely class

Eratosthenes of Cyrene

c. 276–194 BCE. The Suda says Ptolemy III summoned him from Athens. P.Oxy.

Hermes

Ἑρμῆς

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

A handful of fragments, mostly via later astronomical writers.

Was it in Alexandria?

Known · Attested

Written in Alexandria.

In the cupboard: written at Alexandria by a scholar or court writer a source places there.

Read it today

Fragments in Powell, Collectanea Alexandrina (1925); discussion in Geus (2002).

III · In the show

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IV · Sources and the living entry

Ancient references (2)
  • Achilles Tatius (astronomer), Introduction to Aratus
  • Theon of Smyrna, Mathematics Useful for Reading Plato
Modern scholarship (2)
  • K. Geus, Eratosthenes von Kyrene: Studien zur hellenistischen Kultur- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte (Munich: C. H. Beck, 2002)
  • H. Lloyd-Jones and P. Parsons, Supplementum Hellenisticum (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1983).

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