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This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Claudio Meliadò and first published on 31/10/2017.

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Grammarian:

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Biography:

Attalus is a grammarian of unknown origin and date; Maass (1888, p. XXV, and 1898, p. XIII n. 4) reasonably distinguishes him from the more famous Attalus of Rhodes¹. Our Attalus was probably the author of a commentary on the Iliad², in which he treated problems of a…