ZENODOTUS  , See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek grammarian and critic, See also:

• PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil of See also:

• PHILETAS

Philetas (q.v.) of See also:

• COS
• COS, or STANKO (Ital. Stanchio, Turk. Islan-keui, by corruption from Etc rav KW)

Cos, was a native of See also:

• EPHESUS
• EPHESUS, COUNCIL OF

Ephesus . He lived during the reigns of the first two See also:

• PTOLEMIES

Ptolemies, and was at the height of his reputation about 28o B.C . He was the first See also:

• SUPERINTENDENT

superintendent of the library at See also:

• ALEXANDRIA
• ALEXANDRIA (Arab. Iskenderia)

Alexandria and the first See also:

• CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

critical editor (&opdiarrls) of See also:

• HOMER, WINSLOW (1836-191o)

Homer . His colleagues in the librarianship were See also:

• ALEXANDER
• ALEXANDER (1461-1506)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OF BATTENBERG) (1857-1893)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OsxENOVici) (1876-1903)
• ALEXANDER, ARCHIBALD (1772—1851)
• ALEXANDER, FRANCIS (1800—1881)
• ALEXANDER, GEORGE (1858— )
• ALEXANDER, JOHN WHITE (1856- )
• ALEXANDER, JOSEPH ADDISON (18o9—186o)
• ALEXANDER, SIR JAMES EDWARD (1803—1885)
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM (1824— )
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM LINDSAY (1808—1884)

Alexander of See also:

• AETOLIA

Aetolia and See also:

• LYCOPHRON

Lycophron of See also:

• CHALCIS

Chalcis, to whom were allotted the tragic and comic writers respectively, Homer and other epic poets being assigned to Zenodotus . Although he ,has been reproached with arbitrariness and an insufficient know-ledge of Greek, in his recension he undoubtedly laid a See also:

• SOUND
• SOUND, THE (Danish Oresund)

sound See also:

• FOUNDATION (Lat. fundatio, from fundare, to found)

foundation for future See also:

• CRITICISM
• CRITICISM (from the Gr. KpiTrlS, a judge, Kpivew, to decide, to give an authoritative opinion)

criticism . Having collated the different See also:

• MSS

MSS. in the library, he expunged or obelized doubtful verses, transposed or altered lines, and introduced new readings . He divided the Homeric poems into books (with capitals for the Iliad, and small letters for the Odyssey), and possibly was the author of the calculation of the days of the Iliad in the Tabula Iliaca . He does not appear to have written any See also:

• REGULAR

regular commentary on Homer, but his Homeric y7iavo-at (lists of unusual words) probably formed the source of the explanations of Homer attributed by the grammarians to Zenodotus . He also lectured upon See also:

• HESIOD

Hesiod, See also:

• ANACREON

Anacreon and See also:

• PINDAR (Gr. HivSapos, c. 522–443 B.c.)

Pindar, if he did not publish See also:

• EDITIONS

editions of them . He is further called an, epic poet by Suidas, and three epigrams in the Greek See also:

• ANTHOLOGY

Anthology are assigned to him . There appear to have been at least two other grammarians of the same name: (I) Zenodotus of Alexandria, surnamed 2 Whether See also:

• SHAPUR (Pahlavi, Shahpuhre, " son of the king "; Greek Sapores, commonly Sapor)

Shapur or his son Hormuzdi is not certain; Shapur's See also:

• DEATH

death is variously placed in 269 and 272 . d v dare; (2) Zenodotus of Mallus, the See also:

• DISCIPLE

disciple of See also:

• CRATES

Crates, who like his See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master attacked See also:

• ARISTARCHUS

Aristarchus .

See F . A . See also:

• WOLF
• WOLF (Canis lupus)
• WOLF, FRIEDRICH AUGUST (1759-1824)
• WOLF, HUGO (1860-1903)
• WOLF, JOSEPH (1820-1899)

Wolf, Prolegomena ad Homerum, See also:

• SECTION
• SECTION (Lat. sectio, cutting, secare, to cut)

section 43 (1859 edition) ; H . Mintzer, De Zenodoti studiis Homericis (1848) ; A . Romer, Uber See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

die Homerrecension See also:

• DES

des Zenodotus (See also:

• MUNICH (Ger. Munchen)

Munich, 1885); F . Susemihl, Geschichte der griechischen Litteratur in der Alexandrineezeit, i. p . 330, ii. p . 14; J . E . See also:

• SANDYS, FREDERICK (1832-1904)
• SANDYS, GEORGE (1578-1644)
• SANDYS, SIR EDWIN (1561-1629)

Sandys, Hist. of Class . Schol . (1906), ed .

2, vol. i. pp . 119–121 .