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Euphronius
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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 Valeria Novembri and published on 01/10/2020.

Here is the Italian version of this entry.

Grammarian:

Name:

Euphronius | Εὐφρόνιος

Identity:

Perseus | Pauly-Wissowa | BNP

Place of Origin:

Chersonesus?

Date:

3rd c. BCE

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Biography:

The name of a Euphronius who commented on the comic poets appears frequently in the scholia on Aristophanes1 (27 explicit mentions, of which 14 occur in only the scholia on the Birds and 9 in those on the Wasps), however…

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Novembri, Valeria, “Euphronius”, in: Lexicon of Greek Grammarians of Antiquity. Consulted online on 19 March 2024 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2451-9278_Euphronius>
First published online: 2015



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