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Aristophanes of Byzantium
Aristophanes of Byzantium
c. 257 BCE–c. 180 BCE · Alexandria
Aristophanes of Byzantium was a Greek scholar of the late 3rd and early 2nd century BCE who served as head of the Library of Alexandria. A founder of systematic philology, he produced critical editions of Homer and other poets, worked on punctuation and accentuation, and compiled studies of language and of earlier literature. His pupils included the influential critic Aristarchus of Samothrace.
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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.
In Alexandria at the same time
Lycophron, Callimachus, Erasistratus of Ceos, Apollonius Rhodius, Eratosthenes of Cyrene, Polybius
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Lycophron, Callimachus, Erasistratus of Ceos, Apollonius Rhodius, Eratosthenes of Cyrene, Polybius
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