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Andronicus
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Entry Version:

This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Mario Regali and first published on 22/12/2008.

Here is the Italian version of this entry.

Grammarian:

Name:

Andronicus | Ἀνδρόνικος

Identity:

BNP

Place of Origin:

Rhodes

Date:

1st c. BCE.

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Biography:

Andronicus was a Peripatetic1 philosopher, and his edition of Aristotle’s2 school writings constituted an essential milestone in the transmission of the corpus and fostered the rebirth of Aristotelianism3 in the imperial age. The sour…

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Regali, Mario, “Andronicus”, in: Lexicon of Greek Grammarians of Antiquity. Consulted online on 22 March 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2451-9278_Andronicus>
First published online: 2015



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