Aristonicus of Alexandria
Template:Short description Aristonicus of Alexandria (Greek Script error: No such module "Lang"., Aristonikos ho Alexandreus) was a distinguished Greek grammarian who lived during the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius, contemporary with Strabo.[1] He taught at Rome, and wrote commentaries and grammatical treatises.[2]
Works
Aristonicus is mentioned as the author of several works, most of which were related to the Homeric poems.[3]
- On the wanderings of Menelaus (Script error: No such module "Lang".)[1]
- On the critical signs of the Iliad and Odyssey (Script error: No such module "Lang".), on the marginal signs by which the Alexandrian critics used to mark suspected or interpolated verses in the Homeric poems and in Hesiod's Theogony[4]
- On ungrammatical words (Script error: No such module "Lang".), a work of six books on irregular grammatical constructions in Homer[5]
These and some other works are all now lost, with the exception of fragments preserved in the passages above referred to. By far the most important fragments of Aristonicus' work are preserved in the scholia of the Venetus A manuscript of the Iliad.[2]
Editions
- Scholia on the Iliad:
Erbse, H. 1969–88, Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem, 7 vols. (Berlin) - Aristonicus' work reconstructed from the Iliad scholia:
Friedländer, L. 1965 [1853], Aristonici Alexandrini περὶ σημείων Ιλιάδος reliquiae emendatiores, reprint (Amsterdam)
See also
Notes
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- ↑ a b Strabo 1.38.
- ↑ a b One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Script error: No such module "template wrapper".
- ↑ Suda α 3924
- ↑ Etymologicum Magnum s.vv. Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang"., and Script error: No such module "Lang".; Suda s.v. Ἀριστόνικος; Eudocius 64; scholia A on Iliad 9.397.
- ↑ Suda loc. cit.
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External links
- Online edition of Friedländer at books.google.com (available online or as 13.9 MB PDF file)