Agallis ( grc, Ἀγαλλίς; called Anagallis grc, Ἀναγαλλίς by the '' Suda'') of

Corcyra Corfu (, ) or Kerkyra ( el, Κέρκυρα, Kérkyra, , ; ; la, Corcyra.) is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea, of the Ionian Islands, and, including its small satellite islands, forms the margin of the northwestern frontier of Greece. The isl ...

was a female grammarian who wrote about

Homer Homer (; grc, Ὅμηρος , ''Hómēros'') (born ) was a Greek poet who is credited as the author of the ''Iliad'' and the ''Odyssey'', two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature. Homer is considered one of the ...

. She, or her father, was a student of Aristophanes of Byzantium. According to

Athenaeus Athenaeus of Naucratis (; grc, Ἀθήναιος ὁ Nαυκρατίτης or Nαυκράτιος, ''Athēnaios Naukratitēs'' or ''Naukratios''; la, Athenaeus Naucratita) was a Greek rhetorician and grammarian, flourishing about the end of th ...

, she argued that ball games were invented by Nausicaa. Two scholiasts on the ''Iliad'' quote an argument that the two cities that Homer describes on the

Shield of Achilles The shield of Achilles is the shield that Achilles uses in his fight with Hector, famously described in a passage in Book 18, lines 478–608 of Homer's ''Iliad''. The intricately detailed imagery on the shield has inspired many different interpr ...

represented Athens and Eleusis; one attributes this to "Agallias of Corcyra", the other to "Dalis of Corcyra". Some scholars believe that Agallias was Agallis' father; others that it is an error and Agallis was the source of this argument. Agallis is sometimes incorrectly described as a philosopher. This derives from the misconception that Ptolemy's ''Life of Aristotle'' was dedicated to her; it is now known to have been dedicated to a man named Gallus.

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