Nicanor of Cyrene

Nicanor of Cyrene was a well of living in the Hellenistic period grammarians of ancient Greece. Nicanor wrote the work Metonomasíai, in which he explained the change of geographical and mythological names. He showed, for example, that Melikertes and Glaucus are identical. The plant is not known, but is mentioned in the scholia to Apollonius Rhodios, of Athenaeus, Harpocration and Stephanos of Byzantium. An identification with Nikanor of Alexandria can not be excluded.

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  • Athenaeus 7.296 d; 1c
  • Fragments of Greek historians 3.633 to 634
  • Philologist of antiquity
  • Hellenism
  • Greek ( Ancient )
  • Born in the 1st millennium BC
  • Died in the 1st millennium BC
  • Man
  • Person ( Cyrene )
Cyrene, Libya Grammarian (Greco-Roman world) Melicertes Apollonius of Rhodes Integrated Authority File
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