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Headword:
Ptolemaios
Adler number: pi,3037
Translated headword: Ptolemy, Ptolemaios
Vetting Status: high
Translation: of Alexandria. Grammarian. The son of Hephaestion.[1] He lived under the emperors Trajan and Hadrian; he was called Chennus. [He wrote] On Astonishing Stories; Sphinx (a historical drama); Anthomerus (a poem in 24 rhapsodies); and certain other works.
Greek Original:Ptolemaios, Alexandreus, grammatikos, ho tou Hêphaistiônos, gegonôs epi te Traianou kai Adrianou tôn autokratorôn, prosagoreutheis de Chennos. Peri paradoxou historias, Sphinga [drama de estin historikon], Anthomêron [esti de poiêsis rhapsôidiôn eikositessarôn]: kai alla tina.
Notes:
C1/2 AD. RE Ptolemaios(77).
[1]
eta 659: Hephaestion.
Reference:
K.-H. Tomberg Der Kaine Historia des Ptolemaios Chennos (Bonn 1968).
Keywords: biography; chronology; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; geography; historiography; mythology; poetry; tragedy
Translated by: Malcolm Heath on 8 September 2003@16:50:48.
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