Callistratus, Alexandrine grammarian, flourished at the beginning of the 2nd century BC. He was one of the pupils of

Aristophanes of Byzantium __NOTOC__ Aristophanes of Byzantium ( grc-gre, Ἀριστοφάνης ὁ Βυζάντιος ; BC) was a Hellenistic Greek scholar, critic and grammarian, particularly renowned for his work in Homeric scholarship, but also for work on other ...

, who were distinctively called Aristophanei. Callistratus chiefly devoted himself to the elucidation of the Greek poets; a few fragments of his commentaries have been preserved in the various collections of

scholia Scholia (singular scholium or scholion, from grc, σχόλιον, "comment, interpretation") are grammatical, critical, or explanatory comments – original or copied from prior commentaries – which are inserted in the margin of th ...

and in

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 ...

. He was also the author of a miscellaneous work called ''Summikta'' (), used by the later lexicographers, and of a treatise on

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(Athenaeus iii.125b, xiii.591d).

Bibliography

* H.-L. Barth, ''Die Fragmente aus den Schriften der Grammatikers Kallistratos zu Homers Ilias und Odyssee'' (1984) * C.W. Müller, ''Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum'', iv p. 353 note * R. Pfeiffer, ''History of Classical Scholarship: from the Beginnings to the End of the Hellenistic Age'' (1968), p. 190 * R. Schmidt, ''De Callistrato Aristophaneo'', appended to A. Nauck's ''Aristophanis Byzantii Fragmenta'' (1848)

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