PTOLEMAEUS  , of

Alexandria, surnamed Chennus, Greek grammarian during the reigns of Trajan and Hadrian . According to Suidas, he was the author of an historical drama named Sphinx, of an epic, Anthomeros, in 24 books (both lost) and a Strange History . The last is probably identical with the work of which an abridgment has been preserved in Photius (cod . 190) . It contains a medley of all sorts of legends and fables belonging to both the mythological and historical periods . It is probable that Chennus was also the author of a lost treatise on the life and works of Aristotle, ascribed to " Ptolemaeus " in an Arabic list of his works, taken from a Syriac version of the Greek original (A . Baum-stark, Aristoteles bei den Syrern vom v.-viii . Jahrh., Leipzig, 1900) . See editions of Photius's abridgment by J . Roulez (1834) ; and in A . Westermann, Mythographs graeci (1843) ; R . Hercher, Ober die Glaubwiirdz keit der neuen Geschichte des Ptolem¢us Chennus (Leipzig, 1856) ; J .

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Sandys, Hist. of Classical Scholarship (2nd ed., 1906) .