Aristophanes of Byzantium (Greek: Ἀριστοφάνης ὁ Βυζάντιος Aristophánēs ho Buzántios; c. 257 – c. 185/180 BC) was a Hellenistic Greek scholar, critic and...
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the writings of Aristophanes of Byzantium, and does not negate mimesis but rather "displace[s] its purpose onto the artlike fashioning of life itself"...
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lived c. 280 BC – c. 220 BC Epigenes of Byzantium, astrologer, lived in the 3rd–2nd century BC Aristophanes of Byzantium, a scholar who flourished in Alexandria...
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Greek alphabet (redirect from English pronunciation of Greek letters)
(¨), indicating a hiatus. This system of diacritics was first developed by the scholar Aristophanes of Byzantium (c. 257 – c. 185/180 BC), who worked at...
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playwright of the New Comedy. He was born in Corinth or Sicyon, and lived in Alexandria. It is said that he taught the grammarian Aristophanes of Byzantium. Two...
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kilometers of accuracy; Hero of Alexandria, who invented the first recorded steam engine; Aristophanes of Byzantium, who invented the system of Greek diacritics...
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nothing further is known of him. Aristophanes of Byzantium (c. 257 – c. 185 BC), Greek scholar, critic and grammarian Aristophanes of Corinth, who was addressed...
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Aristarchus of Samothrace Aristophanes of Byzantium Dionysius Thrax Thucydides Hecataeus of Abdera Stephanus of Byzantium Hieronymus of Cardia Bion of Abdera...
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student Aristophanes of Byzantium, who first introduced the asterisk and used a symbol resembling a ⊤ for an obelus; and finally by Aristophanes' student...
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influential of all scholars of Homeric poetry. He was the head librarian of the Library of Alexandria and seems to have succeeded his teacher Aristophanes of Byzantium...
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of fragments. According to Aristophanes of Byzantium, the plot was similar to that of Sophocles' play Antigone, with three differences. The date of the...
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learned grammarian. He was head of the Library at Alexandria, succeeding Aristophanes of Byzantium and succeeded by Aristarchus of Samothrace. He was called...
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of a Seleucid king, does not take King Seleucus IV's side and remains on friendly terms with Rome. Following the death of Aristophanes of Byzantium,...
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3rd- and early 2nd-century BCE critic Aristophanes of Byzantium, who considered the Catalogue to be the work of Hesiod, noted the borrowing, which led...
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Lysias (section Table of extant speeches)
Greece. He was one of the ten Attic orators included in the "Alexandrian Canon" compiled by Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace in the...
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the system of Aristophanes of Byzantium, commata were separated by middle interpuncts. In antiquity, a comma was defined as a combination of words that...
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Eratosthenes (redirect from Erastothenes of Cyrene)
was a man of learning, becoming the chief librarian at the Library of Alexandria. His work is comparable to what is now known as the study of geography...
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student Aristophanes of Byzantium, who first introduced the asterisk and used a symbol resembling a ⊤ for an obelus; and finally by Aristophanes' student...
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Crab-eating macaque (category Primates of Southeast Asia)
from the name of a race of humans with long hair and handsome beards who used dogs for hunting according to Aristophanes of Byzantium, who seemingly...
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arrested by Archias of Thurii, Antipater's confidant. The Alexandrian Canon, compiled by Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace, called...
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Aristarchian symbols (section System of Aristarchus)
consecutive and interchangeable lines of the same content. A system of dots also credited to Aristophanes of Byzantium was developed in the 3rd century BCE...
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lists of the greatest poets of the Alexandrian age (traditionally ascribed to Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace), which include the...
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Homer (section History of Homeric scholarship)
Zenodotus of Ephesus, Aristophanes of Byzantium and in particular Aristarchus of Samothrace helped establish a canonical text. The first printed edition of Homer...
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Andocides (category Ancient Greeks accused of sacrilege)
Greece. He was one of the ten Attic orators included in the "Alexandrian Canon" compiled by Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace in the...
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Full stop (redirect from Periods at ends of sentences)
Greek punctuation introduced by Aristophanes of Byzantium in the 3rd century BCE. In his system, there were a series of dots whose placement determined...
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Plagiarism (redirect from Legal aspects of plagiarism)
recounted a story where the well-read Aristophanes of Byzantium judged a poetry competition and caught most of the contestants plagiarizing others' poems...
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Kingdom of Âu Lạc and the Thục dynasty. Aristophanes of Byzantium, Greek scholar and grammarian (approximate date) Bai Qi, Chinese general of the Qin...
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is the last of the great species of poetry Greece gave to the world. The Alexandrine grammarians, and most likely Aristophanes of Byzantium in particular...
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He was the last of the ten Attic orators included in the "Alexandrian Canon" compiled by Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace in the...
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Hypereides (category People who died under the regency of Antipater)
writer). He was one of the ten Attic orators included in the "Alexandrian canon" compiled by Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace in the...
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