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For the astronomer, see Aristarchus of Samos. For other men of this name, see Aristarchus.


Aristarchus (Ἀρίσταρχος, 220? - 143 BC?), from the Greek island of Samothrace, was a grammarian and is noted as the most influential of all scholars of Homeric poetry. He was the librarian of the Library of Alexandria, and seems to have succeeded his teacher Aristophanes of Byzantium in that role.

He established the most historically important critical edition of the Homeric poems, and he is said to have applied his teacher's accent system to it, pointing the texts with a careful eye for metrical correctness. It is likely that he, or more probably, another predecessor at Alexandria, Zenodotus, was responsible for the division of the Iliad and Odyssey into twenty-four books each. According to the Suda, Aristarchus wrote 800 treatises (ὑπομνήματα) on various topics, all lost but for fragments preserved in the various scholia.

Accounts of his death vary, though they agree that it was during the persecutions of Ptolemy VIII Physcon. One account has him, having contracted incurable dropsy, starving himself to death while in exile on Cyprus.

The historical connection of his name to literary criticism has created the term aristarch for someone who is a judgmental critic.

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Aristarchus (Greek: Ἀρίσταρχος; 310 BC - ca. 230 BC) was a Greek astronomer and mathematician, born on the island of Samos, in ancient Greece.
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Aristarchus may refer to:
  • Aristarchus of Samos, Greek astronomer and mathematician (310 BC - c. 230 BC)
  • Aristarchus of Samothrace, Greek critic and grammarian (220? - 143 BC?)
  • Aristarchus of Tegea, Greek tragic poet
  • Aristarchus (crater), a lunar crater

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Ελευθερία ή θάνατος
Eleftheria i thanatos  
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Grammar is the study of the rules governing the use of a given natural language, and as such a field of linguistics. Traditionally, grammar included morphology and syntax, in modern linguistics commonly expanded by the subfields of phonetics, phonology, orthography, semantics, and
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Homer is the name given to the purported author of the early Greek poems the Iliad and the Odyssey. It is now generally believed that they were composed by illiterate aoidoi (rhapsodes) in an oral tradition in the 8th or 7th century BC.
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Royal Library of Alexandria in Alexandria, Egypt, was once the largest library in the world.

It is generally thought to have been founded at the beginning of the 3rd century BC, during the reign of Ptolemy II of Egypt.
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Aristophanes of Byzantium

Born ca. 257 BC
Byzantium, Greece
Died ca. 185 BC/180 BC
Alexandria, Greece

This article is about the 2nd century BCE grammarian. For the 4th century BCE dramatist, see Aristophanes.

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Zenodotus (Ζηνόδοτος), Greek grammarian, literary critic, and scholar on Homer; first librarian of the Library of Alexandria; pupil of Philitas of Cos; a native of Ephesus.
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iLiad is an electronic handheld device, or e-book device, which can be used for document reading and editing. Like the Sony Reader, the iLiad makes use of an electronic paper display.

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The Odyssey (Greek Οδύσσεια (Odússeia)) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to the Ionian poet Homer. The poem is commonly dated circa 800 to circa 600 BC.
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The Suda (Σοῦδα or alternatively Suidas Σουΐδας
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A scholium, plural scholia (Greek: σχόλιον "comment", "lecture"), is a grammatical, critical, or explanatory comment, either original or extracted from pre-existing commentaries, which is inserted on the
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Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II (Greek: Πτολεμαίος Ευεργέτης) (c. 182 BC–26 June 116 BC), nicknamed Physcon
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This page is about the medical condition. For the rock band, see Adema.

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Ύμνος εις την Ελευθερίαν
Imnos is tin Eleftherian
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Literary criticism is the study, discussion, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often informed by literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of its methods and goals.
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Homeric scholarship is the study of Homeric epic, especially the two large surviving epics the Iliad and Odyssey. It is currently part of the academic discipline of classical studies, but the subject is one of the very oldest topics in all scholarship or science,
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