Asclepiades of Myrlea
Asclepiades of Myrlea (Greek: Ἀσκληπιάδης ὁ Μυρλεανός) was a Greek grammarian, historian and astronomer disciple of Apollonius of Rhodes born in Myrlea (Bithynia) that lived in the 2nd and 1st centuries BC. At the time of Pompey he was a teacher in Rome. He lived for some time in Spain teaching grammar in Turdetania.
Work
[edit]Of his numerous Greek writings only some fragments remain which include information about Bithynia as well as some Turdetan myths, collected by the Greek historian Pompeius Trogus.[1]
There is some debate about whether this Asclepiades is the same person as the Asclepiades, son of Areius, who wrote a work on Demetrius Phalereus.[2][3]
Bibliography
[edit]- Smith, William (1867). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Boston: Little, Brown and Co. p. 381.
- Pagani, Lara (2007). Pleiadi Edizioni di storia e letteratura (ed.). Asclepiades of Bithynia: I frammenti degli scritti omerici.
- Brill's Companion to Ancient Greek Scholarship (2 Vols.). Brill. 2015. ISBN 9789004281929.
References
[edit]- ^ Gibson, Roy K.; Kraus, Christina Shuttleworth (2002). The classical commentary: histories, practices, theory. BRILL. p. 99. ISBN 978-90-04-12153-9.
- ^ Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 13.567
- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica s.v. Νίκαια
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