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ZENODOTUS , See also:Greek grammarian and critic, See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of See also:Philetas (q.v.) of See also:Cos, was a native of See also:Ephesus. He lived during the reigns of the first two See also:Ptolemies, and was at the height of his reputation about 28o B.C. He was the first See also:superintendent of the library at See also:Alexandria and the first See also:critical editor (&opdiarrls) of See also:Homer. His colleagues in the librarianship were See also:Alexander of See also:Aetolia and See also:Lycophron of See also:Chalcis, to whom were allotted the tragic and comic writers respectively, Homer and other epic poets being assigned to Zenodotus. Although he ,has been reproached with arbitrariness and an insufficient know-ledge of Greek, in his recension he undoubtedly laid a See also:sound See also:foundation for future See also:criticism. Having collated the different See also:MSS. in the library, he expunged or obelized doubtful verses, transposed or altered lines, and introduced new readings. He divided the Homeric poems into books (with capitals for the Iliad, and small letters for the Odyssey), and possibly was the author of the calculation of the days of the Iliad in the Tabula Iliaca. He does not appear to have written any See also:regular commentary on Homer, but his Homeric y7iavo-at (lists of unusual words) probably formed the source of the explanations of Homer attributed by the grammarians to Zenodotus. He also lectured upon See also:Hesiod, See also:Anacreon and See also:Pindar, if he did not publish See also:editions of them. He is further called an, epic poet by Suidas, and three epigrams in the Greek See also:Anthology are assigned to him.
There appear to have been at least two other grammarians of the same name: (I) Zenodotus of Alexandria, surnamed
2 Whether See also:Shapur or his son Hormuzdi is not certain; Shapur's See also:death is variously placed in 269 and 272.
d v dare; (2) Zenodotus of Mallus, the See also:disciple of See also:Crates, who like his See also:master attacked See also:Aristarchus.
See F. A. See also:Wolf, Prolegomena ad Homerum, See also:section 43 (1859 edition) ; H. Mintzer, De Zenodoti studiis Homericis (1848) ; A. Romer, Uber See also:die Homerrecension See also:des Zenodotus (See also:Munich, 1885); F. Susemihl, Geschichte der griechischen Litteratur in der Alexandrineezeit, i. p. 330, ii. p. 14; J. E. See also:Sandys, Hist. of Class. Schol. (1906), ed. 2, vol. i. pp. 119–121.
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