About Apollonius the Sophist
Lived AD 1 – 150. Apollonius the Sophist was a writer.
Apollonius the Sophist was a famous grammarian, who probably lived towards the end of the 1st century AD and taught in Rome in the time of Tiberius. He was born in Alexandria, the son of another grammarian, Archibius of Alexandria (or was possibly Archibius's father).
He was the author of a Homeric dictionary (Λέξεις Ὁμηρικαί), the only work of this kind existent today. His chief authorities were Aristarchus of Samothrace and Apion's Homeric glossary
It was edited for the first time by Villoison (1773, 2 vol. in quarto) from a manuscript of Saint Germain, and also by I. Bekker (1833).
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1st century AD Greek grammarian
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Apollonius the Sophist was born in AD 1 in Alexandria.
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Apollonius the Sophist died in 150.
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Apollonius the Sophist was a writer.
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