About Dimitrios Triclinius
Lived 1280 – 1340 (aged 59–60). Dimitrios Triclinius was a Byzantine philologist and writer.
Demetrius Triclinius (; b. ), a native of Thessalonica, was a Byzantine scholar who edited and analyzed the metrical structure of many texts from ancient Greece, particularly those of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. He is often compared favorably with two contemporary annotators of ancient Greek texts, Thomas Magister and Manuel Moschopulus, and his studies are responsible for the preservation of several important works, including the Agamemnon of Aeschylus . He also had knowledge of astronomy.
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Byzantine philologist
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Dimitrios Triclinius was born in 1280 in Thessaloniki.
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Dimitrios Triclinius died in 1340 in Thessaloniki.
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Dimitrios Triclinius was a philologist and writer.
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Dimitrios Triclinius was Byzantine.
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