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This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Lara Pagani and first published on 16/01/2007.

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Biography:

A scholar with an allegorical approach, Demo is cited in the scholia to the Iliad¹ and Lucian² and in Eustathius³, and is the object of a polemic by Johannes Tzetzes⁴, who mentions her with the offensive epithet μιμώ, together with Heraclitus⁵, Cornutus⁶, Palaephatus^7…