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PTOLEMAEUS , of See also:

Alexandria, surnamed Chennus, See also:Greek grammarian during the reigns of See also:Trajan and See also:Hadrian. According to Suidas, he was the author of an See also:historical See also:drama named See also:Sphinx, of an epic, Anthomeros, in 24 books (both lost) and a See also:Strange See also:History. The last is probably identical with the See also:work of which an abridgment has been preserved in See also:Photius (See also:cod. 190). It contains a medley of all sorts of legends and fables belonging to both the mythological and historical periods. It is probable that Chennus was also the author of a lost See also:treatise on the See also:life and See also:works of See also:Aristotle, ascribed to " Ptolemaeus " in an Arabic See also:list of his works, taken from a See also:Syriac version of the Greek See also:original (A. Baum-See also:stark, Aristoteles bei den Syrern vom v.-viii. Jahrh., See also:Leipzig, 1900). See See also:editions of Photius's abridgment by J. Roulez (1834) ; and in A. Westermann, Mythographs graeci (1843) ; R. Hercher, Ober See also:die Glaubwiirdz keit der neuen Geschichte See also:des Ptolem¢us Chennus (Leipzig, 1856) ; J.

E. See also:

Sandys, Hist. of Classical Scholarship (2nd ed., 1906).

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