Aristonicus of Alexandria

Aristonicus of Alexandria (, Aristonikos ho Alexandreus) was a distinguished Greek grammarian who lived during the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius, contemporary with Strabo. He taught at Rome, and wrote commentaries and grammatical treatises.

Works Aristonicus is mentioned as the author of several works, most of which were related to the Homeric poems.

On the wanderings of Menelaus On ungrammatical words , a work of six books on irregular grammatical constructions in Homer

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 manuscript of the Iliad.

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 , Aristonici Alexandrini περὶ σημείων Ιλιάδος reliquiae emendatiores, reprint (Amsterdam)