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EUPHORION , See also:Greek poet and grammarian, See also:born at See also:Chalcis in See also:Euboea about 275 B.C. He spent much of his See also:life in See also:Athens, where he amassed See also:great See also:wealth. About 221 he was invited by See also:Antiochus the Great to the See also:court of See also:Syria. He assisted in the formation of the royal library at See also:Antioch, of which he held the See also:post of librarian till his See also:death. He wrote mythological epics, amatory elegies, epigrams and a satirical poem ('Apal, " curses ") after the manner of the See also:Ibis of See also:Callimachus. See also:Prose See also:works on antiquities and See also:history are also attributed to him. Like See also:Lycophron, he was fond of using archaic and obsolete expressions, and the erudite See also:character of his allusions rendered his See also:language very obscure. His elegies were highly esteemed by the Romans• they were imitated or translated by See also:Cornelius See also:Gallus and alsc by the See also:emperor Tiberius. Fragments in See also:Meineke, " De Euphorionis Chalcidensis vita et scriptis," in his Analecta Alexandrina (1843); for a recently discovered fragment of about 30 lines see Berliner Klassikertexte, v. 1 (1907). End of Article: EUPHORIONAdditional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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