Apollonius Eidographus Explained

Apollonius Eidographus (Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Άπολλώνιος 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] [5]}

Notes and References

1. [Pindar]
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.
5. Book: Montanari . Franco . Matthaios . Stefanos . Rengakos . Antonios . Brill's Companion to Ancient Greek Scholarship (2 Vols.) . BRILL . 100–101 . en . 12 May 2015. 9789004281929 .