...This chapter takes a look at Agatharchides of Cnidus, who provides some insight into another field of Alexandrian scholarship, and pinpoints his references to the Jews, which are located in two fragments concerned with the occupation of Jerusalem by Ptolemy I during the battle of Ipsus. It begins...

...–339 on historiai, and 661–708 on Homer and the neoteroi). Pfeiffer (1968) and Fraser (1972) are useful general discussions of Alexandrian scholarship. For broader studies on the period, see Easterling (1985) ; Gutzwiller (2007) ; Sistakou , this volume; Préaux...

... speech Aristippus On Ancient Luxury Didymus Diogenes Laertius abstractions hymns to elegiacs memorials symposia genre paean refrain epinician encomium Skolion Alexandrian scholarship The previous chapter has argued that Aristotle’s song to Hermias is not an ancient forgery...

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