Aristonicus of
Alexandria
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(Greek , ''Aristonikos ho Alexandreus'') was a distinguished
Greek
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grammarian who lived during the reigns of
Augustus
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and
Tiberius
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, contemporary with
Strabo.
[Strabo 1.38.] He taught at
Rome
, established_title = Founded
, established_date = 753 BC
, founder = King Romulus (legendary)
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, and wrote commentaries and grammatical treatises.
Works
Aristonicus is mentioned as the author of several works, most of which were related to the
Homer
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ic poems.
* ''On the wanderings of Menelaus'' ()
* ''On the critical signs of the Iliad and Odyssey'' (), on the marginal signs by which the Alexandrian critics used to mark suspected or
interpolated
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verses in the Homeric poems and in
Hesiod
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's ''Theogony''
* ''On ungrammatical words'' (), a work of six books on irregular grammatical constructions in Homer
[''Suda'' ''loc. cit''.]
These and some other works are all now lost, with the exception of fragments preserved in the passages above referred to. By far the most important fragments of Aristonicus' work are preserved in the scholia of the
Venetus A
Venetus A is the more common name for the tenth century AD manuscript codex catalogued in the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice as ''Codex Marcianus Graecus'' 454, now 822. Its name is Latin for "Venetian A."
Venetus A is the most famous manuscript ...
manuscript of the ''
Iliad
The ''Iliad'' (; grc, Ἰλιάς, Iliás, ; "a poem about Ilium") is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest extant works of literature still widely read by modern audiences. As with the '' Odys ...
''.
Editions
* Scholia on the ''Iliad'':
Erbse, H. 1969–88, ''Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem'', 7 vols. (Berlin)
* Aristonicus' work reconstructed from the ''Iliad'' scholia:
Friedländer, L. 1965
853 ''Aristonici Alexandrini ''περὶ σημείων Ιλιάδος'' reliquiae emendatiores'', reprint (Amsterdam)
See also
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Notes
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External links
Online edition of Friedländer at books.google.com(available online or as 13.9 MB PDF file)
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Ancient Greek grammarians
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Roman-era Alexandrians
Hellenistic Egyptians
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1st-century Egyptian people