Apollonius Eidographus

Apollonius Eidographus (Ancient Greek: Απολλώνιος Εἰδογράφος) was a writer referred to by the Scholiast on Pindar respecting a contest in which Hiero won the prize.[1] Some writers have thought he was a poet, but from the Etymologicum Magnum,[2] it is probable that he was some learned grammarian. He was head of the Library at Alexandria, succeeding Aristophanes of Byzantium and succeeded by Aristarchus of Samothrace.[3] He was called "eidographus" ("the classifier") because he classified lyric poems based on their musical modes.[4]

Notes
  1. Pindar, P. 2.1
  2. Etymologicum Magnum s. v. εἰδοΔέα
  3. Rudolph Pfeiffer (1968), History of Classical Scholarship from the Beginnings to the End of the Hellenistic Age. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 210.
  4. Rudolph Pfeiffer (1968), History of Classical Scholarship from the Beginnings to the End of the Hellenistic Age. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 184.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Schmitz, Leonhard (1870). "Apollonius". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 239.



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