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CHRISTODORUS , of See also:

Coptos in See also:Egypt, epic poet, flourished during the reign of See also:Anastasius I. (A.n. 491-518). According to Suidas, he was the author of IIIvrpta, accounts of the See also:foundation of various cities; Au&axa, the mythical See also:history of See also:Lydia; 'Icavpuda, the See also:conquest of See also:Isauria by Anastasius; three books of epigrams; and many other See also:works. In addition to two epigrams (Anthol. See also:Pal. vii. 697, 698) we possess a description of eighty statues of gods, heroes and famous men and See also:women in the gymnasium of Zeuxippus at See also:Constantinople. This Ee paver, consisting of 4r6 hexameters, forms the second See also:book of the See also:Palatine See also:Anthology. The writer's See also:chief See also:models are See also:Homer and See also:Nonnus, whom he follows closely in the structure of his hexameters. Opinions are divided as to the merits of the See also:work. Some critics regard it as of See also:great importance for the history of See also:art and a See also:model of description; others consider it valueless, alike from the See also:historical, mythological and archaeological points of view. See F.

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Baumgarten, De Christodoro poets Theban (1881), and his See also:article in Pauly-Wissowa's Realencycdopadie, iii. 2 (1899); W. See also:Christ, Geschichte der griechischen Litteratur (1898).

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