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Apollônios
Adler number: alpha,3419
Translated headword: Apollonios, Apollonius
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Translation: An Alexandrian, writer of epic poems; spent some time on
Rhodes; son of Silleus;[1] a student of Kallimachos;[2] contemporary with
Eratosthenes,[3] Euphorion,[4] and Timarchos, in the reign of
Ptolemy known as The Benefactor [
Euergetes],[5] and
Eratosthenes' successor in the Directorship [
prostasia] of the Library in Alexandria.[6]
Apollônios, Alexandreus, epôn poiêtês, diatripsas en Rhodôi, huios Silleôs, mathêtês Kallimachou, sunchronos Eratosthenous kai Euphoriônos kai Timarchou, epi Ptolemaiou tou Euergetou epiklêthentos, kai diadochos Eratosthenous genomenos en têi prostasiai tês en Alexandreiai bibliothêkês.
Notes:
See generally Richard Hunter in OCD(4) s.v. Apollonius(1)Rhodius (pp.121-2), esp. the opening section ('Life').
This translation is the work of Peter Green, and appears also on page 5 of his commentary on the
Argonautika:
Apollonios Rhodios, Argonautika. Trans. Peter Green. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
[1] Cf.
sigma 412.
[2] See generally
kappa 227.
[3] See generally
epsilon 2898.
[4] See generally
epsilon 3801.
[5] 246-221 BCE.
[6] Here the Suda is probably mistaken: other testimonia indicate that Apollonios was
Eratosthenes' predecessor as Director of the Library, rather than his successor. The Suda or its source seems to have confused Apollonios the poet with a later character, "Apollonios the Compiler", named in P.Oxy. 1241, col. ii. See further R. Pfeiffer,
History of Classical Scholarship (Oxford 1968) 154.
Translated by: Peter Green on 20 November 1998@14:42:02.
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