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HEPHAESTION

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 304 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HEPHAESTION , a grammarian of See also:

Alexandria, who flourished in the See also:age of the Antonines. He was the author of a See also:manual (abridged from a larger See also:work in 48 books) of See also:Greek metres ('Ey €tpi&&ov 7rspl /AT pWV), which is most valuable as the only See also:complete See also:treatise on the subject that has been preserved. The concluding See also:chapter (Ilspi vrou7µaros) discusses the various kinds of poetical See also:composition. It is written in a clear and See also:simple See also:style, and was much used as a school-See also:book. See also:Editions by T. See also:Gaisford (1855, with the valuable scholia), R. See also:Westphal (1886, in Scriptores metrici Graeci) and M. Consbruch (1906); See also:translation by T. F. See also:Barham (1843); see also W. See also:Christ, Gesch. der griech. Litt.

(1898); M. Consbruch, De veterum IIept iroiiµaros doctrina (1890) ; J. E. See also:

Sandys, Hist. Class. Schol. i. (1906).

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