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NICANDER (2nd cent. B.C.)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 642 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NICANDER (2nd cent. B.C.) , See also:Greek poet, physician and grammarian, was See also:born at Claros, near See also:Colophon, where his See also:family held the hereditary priesthood of See also:Apollo. He flourished under Attalus III. of See also:Pergamum. He wrote a number of See also:works both in See also:prose and See also:verse, of which two are preserved. The longest, Tkeriaca, is an See also:hexameter poem (958 lines) on the nature of venomous animals and the wounds which they inflict. The other, Alexipharmaca, consists of 63o hexameters treating of poisons and their antidotes. In his facts Nicander followed the physician See also:Apollodorus. Among his lost works may be mentioned: Aetolica, a prose See also:history of See also:Aetolia; Heteroeumena, a mythological epic, used by See also:Ovid in the Metamorphoses and epitomized by See also:Antoninus Liberalis; Georgica and Melissourgica, of which considerable fragments are preserved, said to have been imitated by See also:Virgil (See also:Quintilian x. 1. 56). The works of Nicander were praised by See also:Cicero (De oratore, i. 16), imitated by Ovid, and frequently quoted by See also:Pliny and other writers.

His reputation does not seem justified; his works, as See also:

Plutarch says (De audiendis poetis, 16), have nothing poetical about them except the See also:metre, and the See also:style is bombastic and obscure; but they contain some interesting See also:information as to See also:ancient belief on the subjects treated. See also:Editions.—J. G. See also:Schneider (1792, 1816); O. Schneider (1856) (with the Scholia) ; H. Klauser, " De Dicendi Genere Nicandri " (See also:Dissertations Philologicae Vindobonenses, vi. 1898). The Scholia (from the See also:Gottingen MS.) have been edited by G. Wentzel in Abhandlungen der k. Gesellschaft der Wiss. zu Gottingen,' xxxviii. (1892). See also W.

Vollgraff, Nikander and Ovid (See also:

Groningen, 1909 See also:foil.).

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