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Tryphiodorus
Tryphiodorus
c. 220 CE–c. 280 CE · Panopolis (Akhmim)
Tryphiodorus (active probably in the 3rd century CE) was a Greek epic poet from Egypt, best known for the surviving poem The Sack of Troy, which recounts the fall of the city through the stratagem of the wooden horse. His work belongs to the late tradition of learned Greek epic.
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About Panopolis (Akhmim)
Panopolis, modern Akhmim in Upper Egypt on the east bank of the Nile, was a center of Greek learning in late antiquity. It was the birthplace of the epic poet Nonnus, author of the Dionysiaca, and of the poet Triphiodorus.
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