Aristophanes of Byzantium

Aristophanes of Byzantium ( 257 BC *, † 180 BC ) was a Greek scholar and head of the library of Alexandria.

His surviving only in fragments works deal with textual criticism, grammar, linguistics, literature and stress tests. In its grammatical works, he led an accent and punctuation teaching and developed by analogy the Greek declension. The accents in the Greek alphabet have obviously enforced by his work. His most famous student was Aristarchus of Samothrace, who succeeded him as director of the Alexandrian library.

Text output

  • William J. Slater ( ed.): Aristophanis Byzantii fragmentary. De Gruyter, Berlin, 1986, ISBN 3-11-006555- X
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