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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 is the main Mediterranean port of northern Egypt and the country's second city. Founded by Alexander the Great in 331 BCE, it became the capital of the Ptolemies, whose Museum and Great Library made it the leading centre of Hellenistic learning. It also held one of the largest Jewish communities of antiquity, where the Greek Bible translation known as the Septuagint was produced and Philo wrote. Church tradition traces its patriarchate to Mark the Evangelist, and its catechetical school was led by Clement and Origen. Arab forces under Amr ibn al-As took the city in 641, and it remained a commercial and scholarly hub of the Islamic world; the Sufi master Ibn Ata Allah al-Iskandari was born there.
In Alexandria at the same time
Lycophron, Callimachus, Erasistratus of Ceos, Apollonius Rhodius, Eratosthenes of Cyrene, Polybius
Across the traditions, in Alexandria at the same time
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Sages whose lives overlapped with Aristophanes of Byzantium’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
In the same tradition
Lycophron, Callimachus, Erasistratus of Ceos, Apollonius Rhodius, Eratosthenes of Cyrene, Polybius
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Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Aristophanes of Byzantium’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.