Apollonius Eidographus

Apollonius Eidographus (Ancient Greek: Ἀπολλώνιος 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

1. Pindar, P. 2.1
2. Etymologicum Magnums. 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. Montanari, Franco; Matthaios, Stefanos; Rengakos, Antonios (12 May 2015). Brill's Companion to Ancient Greek Scholarship (2 Vols.). BRILL. pp. 100–101. ISBN 9789004281929.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Schmitz, Leonhard (1870). "Apollonius". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 239.