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ARISTARCHUS , of See also:Samothrace (c. 220—143 B.C.), See also:Greek grammarian and critic, flourished about 155. He settled See also:early in See also:Alexandria, where he studied under See also:Aristophanes of See also:Byzantium, whom he succeeded as librarian of the museum. On the See also:accession of the See also:tyrant See also:Ptolemy Physcon (his former See also:pupil), he found his See also:life in danger and withdrew to See also:Cyprus, where he died from See also:dropsy, hastened, it is said, by voluntary See also:starvation, at the See also:age of 72. Aristarchus founded a school of philologists, called after him "Aristarcheans," which See also:long flourished in Alexandria and afterwards at See also:Rome. He is said to have written Boo commentaries alone, without reckoning See also:special See also:treatises. He edited See also:Hesiod, See also:Pindar, See also:Aeschylus, See also:Sophocles and other authors; but his See also:chief fame rests on his See also:critical and exegetical edition of See also:Homer, practically the See also:foundation of our See also:present recension. In the See also:time of See also:Augustus, two Aristarcheans, See also:Didymus and See also:Aristonicus, undertook the revision of his See also:work, and the extracts from these two writers in the Venetian scholia to the Iliad give an See also:idea of Aristarchus's Homeric labours. To obtain a thoroughly correct See also:text, he marked with an obelus the lines he considered See also:spurious; other signs were used by him to indicate notes, varieties of See also:reading, repetitions and interpolations. He arranged the Iliad and the Odyssey in twenty-four books as we now have them. As a commentator his principle was that the author should explain himself, without recourse to allegorical See also:interpretation; in See also:grammar, he laid chief stress on analogyand uniformity of usage and construction. His views were opposed by See also:Crates of Mallus, who wrote a See also:treatise Ilepi 'Avwµakias, especially directed against them. See See also:Lehrs, De Aristarchi See also:Stud. Homericis (3rd ed., 1882) ; Ludwich, Aristarchs homerische Textcritik (1884); especially See also:Sandys, Hist. of Class. Schol. (ed. 1906), vol. i. with authorities; also HoMER. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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