Agallis

Agallis Kerkyra was a Greek philosopher of the school of grammarians. She lived in the second or third century BC and was a contemporary of Aristophanes of Byzantium.

Life

Agallis lived and worked in Alexandria. Athenaeus reported that Agallis have written a work on Homer. In it they describe Nausicaa as the inventor of the ball game. It should also be represented on the shield of Achilles, the creation story of Attica.

In Suidas Agallis Anagallis means. Josef Poestion writes that Ptolemy Dschemaluddin, an Arab writer, have dedicated their his book on Aristotle. Presumably, however, was meant Ptolemy of Alexandria, who was also a grammarian of the 2nd century BCE. This annotated Homer's work and Agallis even wrote about Aristotle.

Occasionally Agallias is specified from Kerkyra when her father, but in fact it is a masculinization of their name.