Nicias(5,165 words)
Entry Version:
This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Giuseppe Ucciardello and first published on 16/06/2005.
Here is the Italian version of this entry.
Biography:
Nicias was a Homeric1 commentator, but we know neither when he lived nor his city of origin. However, we ought to seriously consider the proposal to identify him as the grammarian Curtius Nicias2, a native of Cos (he could have been the tyrant3 of the …
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Ucciardello, Giuseppe,
“Nicias”, in:
Lexicon of Greek Grammarians of Antiquity.
Consulted online on 11 December 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2451-9278_Nicias>
First published online: 2015
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