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Headword:
Ζηνόδοτος
Adler number: zeta,74
Translated headword: Zenodotus, Zenodotos
Vetting Status: low
Translation: Of
Ephesus. Epic poet and grammarian. A pupil of
Philetas;[1] he lived under
Ptolemy I. He was the first textual critic of
Homer's works, and was director of the libraries in Alexandria, and taught
Ptolemy's children.
Ζηνόδοτος, Ἐφέσιος, ἐποποιὸς καὶ γραμματικός, μαθητὴς Φιλητᾶ, ἐπὶ Πτολεμαίου γεγονὼς τοῦ πρώτου, ὃς καὶ πρῶτος τῶν Ὁμήρου διορθωτὴς ἐγένετο καὶ τῶν ἐν Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ βιβλιοθηκῶν προὔστη καὶ τοὺς παῖδας Πτολεμαίου ἐπαίδευσεν.
Notes:
References:
P.M. Fraser, Ptolemaic Alexandria (Oxford 1972) 450-1.
R. Pfeiffer, A History of Classical Scholarship (Oxford 1968) 105-119.
Keywords: biography; children; chronology; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; history
Translated by: Malcolm Heath on 10 February 2001@09:11:45.
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