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Aristonicus of Alexandria
Aristonicus of Alexandria
c. 35 BCE–c. 25 CE · Alexandria
Aristonicus of Alexandria was a Greek grammarian active around the turn of the era, in the age of the emperor Augustus. He specialized in the scholarship of Homer, writing on the critical signs used in the Alexandrian editions of the Iliad and Odyssey, and his work is an important source for the textual criticism of the great Alexandrian scholar Aristarchus. His studies survive mainly through later commentaries.
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About Alexandria
Alexandria (al-Iskandariyya) is the great Mediterranean port-city of northern Egypt, founded by Alexander the Great in 331 BCE and a leading centre of learning in antiquity. After the Muslim conquest of Egypt (642) it remained a major commercial and scholarly hub; the Shadhili Sufi Ibn Ata Allah al-Iskandari (d. 1309) took his nisba from the city, and the modernist reformer Muhammad Abduh (d. 1905) was active in Egypt's intellectual life there and in Cairo.
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Tryphon I Grammaticus, Philoxenus of Alexandria, Aenesidemus, Didymus Alexandrinus, Strabo, Aelius Theon
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Tryphon I Grammaticus, Philoxenus of Alexandria, Aenesidemus, Didymus Alexandrinus, Strabo, Aelius Theon
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