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Hephaestion
Hephaestion
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Hephaestion was a Greek grammarian and metrician active in Alexandria during the 2nd century CE, in the Roman imperial period. He is best known for his Enchiridion de Metris (Handbook on Meters), a concise treatise on Greek metrics that survives as the abridgment of a much larger lost work. It became the standard ancient guide to verse forms and is a crucial source for fragments of otherwise lost Greek poetry. He is also credited with writings on poems (peri poiematon). His handbook was widely used and annotated by later scholars, making him a foundational figure in the study of classical prosody.
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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.