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Euphorion
" – '' Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'' *
Euphorion
Who's Who in the Greek World by John Hazel.
Euphorion bibliography
*Magnelli, Enrico 2002. ''Studi su Euforione'' (Rome) *Powell, Johannes U. (1925) 1981.''Collectanea Alexandrina: Reliquiae minores poetarum Graecorum aetatis Ptolemaicae 323–146 A.C.'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1925; reprinted Chicago 1981). Euphorion, pp. 28–58. *Lightfoot, Jane L., Hellenistic Collection; Philitas, Alexander of Aetolia, Hermesianax, Euphorion, Parhenius, LCL 508, Cambridge MA 2009. * Latte, Kurt. 1968. "Der Thrax des Euphorion", ''Philologus'' 44 (1935) 129–55, reprinted in Latte, '' Kleine Schriften'' Munich 1968, pp 562–84. *Magnelli, Enrico 2002. ''Studi su Euforione''(Rome) * Franz Skutsch: Euphorion (4). In: Pauly Realencyclopädie of classical archeology (RE). Volume VI, 1, Stuttgart, 1907, 1174–1190 Sp. {{Authority control Ancient Euboeans Euphorion Ancient Greek epigrammatists Ancient Greek epic poets Ancient Greek elegiac poets 3rd-century BC poets Hellenistic poets Hellenistic Athens Year of death unknown Epigrammatists of the Greek Anthology People from Chalcis 270s BC births
Euphorion of Chalcis
Chalcis ( ; Ancient Greek & Katharevousa: , ) or Chalkida, also spelled Halkida (Modern Greek: , ), is the chief town of the island of Euboea or Evia in Greece, situated on the Euripus Strait at its narrowest point. The name is preserved from ...
( el, Εὐφορίων ὁ Χαλκιδεύς) was a Greek poet and grammarian
Grammarian may refer to:
* Alexandrine grammarians, philologists and textual scholars in Hellenistic Alexandria in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE
* Biblical grammarians, scholars who study the Bible and the Hebrew language
* Grammarian (Greco-Roman ...
, born at Chalcis in Euboea about 275 BC.
Euphorion spent much of his life in Athens, where he amassed great wealth. After studying philosophy with Lacydes
Lacydes of Cyrene ( grc-gre, Λακύδης ὁ Κυρηναῖος), Academic Skeptic philosopher, was head of the Platonic Academy at Athens in succession to Arcesilaus from 241 BC. He was forced to resign c. 215 BC due to ill-health, and he ...
and Prytanis, he became the student and '' eromenos'' of the poet Archeboulus
Archebulus or Archeboulus ( grc, Ἀρχέβουλος) of Thera (or possibly Thebes, Greece) was a lyric poet who appears to have lived around the year 280 BCE, as Euphorion of Chalcis is said to have been instructed by him in poetry. A particular ...
. About 221 he was invited by Antiochus the Great to the court of Syria
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. He assisted in the formation of the royal Library of Antioch, of which he held the post of librarian till his death. He wrote mythological epics (the ''Thrax''), amatory elegies, epigram
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s and a satirical poem (''Arae'', "curses") after the manner of the ''Ibis'' of Callimachus.
Prose works on antiquities and history are also attributed to him. Like Lycophron
Lycophron (; grc-gre, Λυκόφρων ὁ Χαλκιδεύς; born about 330–325 BC) was a Hellenistic Greek tragic poet, grammarian, sophist, and commentator on comedy, to whom the poem ''Alexandra'' is attributed (perhaps falsely).
Life and ...
, he was fond of using archaic and obsolete expressions, and the erudite character of his allusions rendered his language very obscure. His elegies were highly esteemed by the Romans—they were imitated or translated by Cornelius Gallus and also by the emperor Tiberius.
Fragments published in Meineke, ''De Euphorionis Chalcidensis vita et scriptis'', in his ''Analecta Alexandrina'' (1843) began the modern editions of the surviving fragments of Euphorion. Further lines have been recovered from papyri
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of Oxyrhynchus
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and elsewhere.
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References
*Euphorion
" – '' Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'' *
Further reading
Euphorion
Who's Who in the Greek World by John Hazel.
Euphorion bibliography
*Magnelli, Enrico 2002. ''Studi su Euforione'' (Rome) *Powell, Johannes U. (1925) 1981.''Collectanea Alexandrina: Reliquiae minores poetarum Graecorum aetatis Ptolemaicae 323–146 A.C.'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1925; reprinted Chicago 1981). Euphorion, pp. 28–58. *Lightfoot, Jane L., Hellenistic Collection; Philitas, Alexander of Aetolia, Hermesianax, Euphorion, Parhenius, LCL 508, Cambridge MA 2009. * Latte, Kurt. 1968. "Der Thrax des Euphorion", ''Philologus'' 44 (1935) 129–55, reprinted in Latte, '' Kleine Schriften'' Munich 1968, pp 562–84. *Magnelli, Enrico 2002. ''Studi su Euforione''(Rome) * Franz Skutsch: Euphorion (4). In: Pauly Realencyclopädie of classical archeology (RE). Volume VI, 1, Stuttgart, 1907, 1174–1190 Sp. {{Authority control Ancient Euboeans Euphorion Ancient Greek epigrammatists Ancient Greek epic poets Ancient Greek elegiac poets 3rd-century BC poets Hellenistic poets Hellenistic Athens Year of death unknown Epigrammatists of the Greek Anthology People from Chalcis 270s BC births