Julius Pollux

Julius Pollux (Greek Polydeuces Ιούλιος Πολυδεύκης Ioúlios; * in the 2nd century in the Naucratis, Egypt; † in the 2nd or 3rd century ) was a Greek scholar of the " Second Sophistic ", who was in Athens in the late 2nd century. He was from Naucratis in Egypt.

The judgments of contemporaries about him falling out contemptuously, Lucian of Samosata calls him ignorant and a " Rhetorenschüler ". Get from him is a composed of ten books lexicon, the so-called Onomastikon, whose importance in the variety of information it contains, for example, about theater masks, the Athenian court system, but also on the private life in the ancient world, such as children's games and equipment is located.

Expenditure

• Erich Bethe (ed.): Pollucis Onomasticon. Leipzig 1900 ( issue no translation)
• Wilhelm Dindorf (ed.): Onomasticon. 3 volumes, Leipzig 1824 (in Greek with Latin introduction; digitized )