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ARISTOPHANES , of See also:

BYZANTIUM

Byzantium, See also:

Greek critic and grammarian, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born about 257 B.C. He removed See also:

early to See also:

Alexandria, where he studied under See also:

ZENODOTUS

Zenodotus and See also:

CALLIMACHUS

Callimachus. At the See also:

AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of sixty he was appointed See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief librarian of the museum. He died about 185-18o B.C. Aristophanes chiefly devoted himself to the poets, especially See also:

HOMER, WINSLOW (1836-191o)

Homer, who had already been edited by his See also:

MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master Zenodotus. He also edited See also:

HESIOD

Hesiod, the chief lyric, tragic and comic poets, arranged See also:

PLATO

Plato's dialogues in trilogies, and abridged See also:

Aristotle's Nature of Animals. His arguments to the plays of Aristophanes and the tragedians are in See also:

GREAT

great See also:

PART

part preserved. His See also:

WORKS

works on Athenian courtesans, masks and See also:

PROVERBS, BOOK OF (Heb. Mishle Slzelomoh, " Proverbs of Solomon," abridged by the later Jews to Mishle; Septuagint, irapotpiai or II. EaX.; Lat. Vulg. Parabolae sal. and Liber proverbiorum)

proverbs were the results of his study of See also:

ATTIC (i.e. "in the Attic style ")

Attic See also:

COMEDY

comedy. He further commented on the Iltvawes of Callimachus, a sort of See also:

HISTORY

history of Greek literature. As a lexicographer, Aristophanes compiled collections of See also:

FOREIGN

foreign and unusual words and expressions, and See also:

SPECIAL

special lists (words denoting relationship, modes of address). As a grammarian, he founded a scientific school, and in his See also:

ANALOGY (Gr. avaXo-yLa, proportion)

Analogy systematically explained the various forms. He introduced See also:

CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

critical signs—except the obelus; See also:

PUNCTUATION (Lat. punctum, a point)

punctuation prosodiacal, and accentual marks were probably already in use.

The See also:

FOUNDATION (Lat. fundatio, from fundare, to found)

foundation of the so-called Alexandrian " See also:

CANON

canon " was also due to his impulses(See also:

Sandys, Hist. Class. Schol., ed. 1906, 1. 129 f.). See also:

NAUCK, JOHANN AUGUST (1822-1892)

Nauck, Aristophanis Byzantii Grammatici Fragmenta (1848).

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