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Ἀπολλώνιος · Apollonios, Apollonius (α 3419) · Suda

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α3415Apollonias, Apollonis
α3416Lake Apollonias
α3417Apolloniate, citizen of Apollonia
α3418Apollônion
α3419Apollonios, Apollonius
α3420Apollonios, Apollonius
α3421Apollonios, Apollonius
α3422Apollonius [Dyscolus], Apollonios [Duskolos]
α3423Apollonius, Apollonios

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Ἀπολλώνιος

Apollonios, Apollonius

Translated by Peter Green20 Nov 1998Vetting: high8 revisions

biography
chronology
epic
geography
poetry

6 notes · 46 words

Translation

An Alexandrian, writer of epic poems; spent some time on Rhodes↗; son of Silleus;¹ a student of Kallimachos;² contemporary with Eratosthenes,³ Euphorion,⁴ and Timarchos, in the reign of Ptolemy known as The Benefactor [Euergetes],⁵ and Eratosthenes' successor in the Directorship [prostasia] of the Library in Alexandria.⁶

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἀπολλώνιος, Ἀλεξανδρεὺς, ἐπῶν ποιητὴς, διατρίψας ἐν Ῥόδῳ, υἱὸς Σιλλέως, μαθητὴς Καλλιμάχου, σύγχρονος Ἐρατοσθένους καὶ Εὐφορίωνος καὶ Τιμάρχου, ἐπὶ Πτολεμαίου τοῦ Εὐεργέτου ἐπικληθέντος, καὶ διάδοχος Ἐρατοσθένους γενόμενος ἐν τῇ προστασίᾳ τῆς ἐν Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ βιβλιοθήκης.

Betacode

*)apollw/nios, *)alecandreu\s, e)pw=n poihth\s, diatri/yas e)n *(ro/dw|, ui(o\s *sille/ws, maqhth\s *kallima/xou, su/gxronos *)eratosqe/nous kai\ *eu)fori/wnos kai\ *tima/rxou, e)pi\ *ptolemai/ou tou= *eu)erge/tou e)piklhqe/ntos, kai\ dia/doxos *)eratosqe/nous geno/menos e)n th=| prostasi/a| th=s e)n *)alecandrei/a| biblioqh/khs.

Notes (6)

See generally Richard Hunter in OCD(4) s.v. Apollonius(1)Rhodius (pp.121-2), esp. the opening section ('Life').
This translation is the work of Peter Green, and appears also on page 5 of his commentary on the Argonautika: Apollonios Rhodios, Argonautika. Trans. Peter Green. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
1Cf. sigma 412. ↩
2See generally kappa 227. ↩
3See generally epsilon 2898. ↩
4See generally epsilon 3801. ↩
5246-221 BCE. ↩
6Here the Suda is probably mistaken: other testimonia indicate that Apollonios was Eratosthenes' predecessor as Director of the Library, rather than his successor. The Suda or its source seems to have confused Apollonios the poet with a later character, "Apollonios the Compiler", named in P.Oxy. 1241, col. ii. See further R. Pfeiffer, History of Classical Scholarship (Oxford 1968) 154.

Linked from1 entry

α3936ἈριστώνυμοςAristonymos, AristonymusA comic poet. [One] of his plays is the Shivering Sun, as Athenaeus [notes] in Deipnosophists. [He lived] while Ptolemy Philadelphos was ruling, and [during] Philopator after him; and he managed the library of the king…

Neighbouring entries

α3417ἈπολλωνιάτηςApolloniate, citizen of Apollonia α3418ἈπολλώνιονApollônion α3419ἈπολλώνιοςApollonios, Apollonius α3420ἈπολλώνιοςApollonios, Apollonius α3421ἈπολλώνιοςApollonios, Apollonius

Revision history8 revisions · last 19 Feb 2022

19 Feb 2022coding — Catharine Roth
30 Jul 2014updated a ref — David Whitehead
5 Oct 2013deleted links — Catharine Roth
3 Apr 2012another keyword — David Whitehead
19 Jan 2005corrected error (mine) in note-numbering — David Whitehead
18 Mar 2004augmented notes; cosmetics — David Whitehead
21 Aug 2002added notes and keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
17 Jul 2000Added keyword, web addresses — Samuel Huskey
20 Nov 1998Translated — Peter Green

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἀπολλώνιος (Adler number alpha 3419), trans. Peter Green, 20 Nov 1998. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/alpha/3419

Translation by Peter Green for Suda On Line, revised by Catharine Roth, David Whitehead, Samuel Huskey, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Original on SOL ↗