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Heliodorus
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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 Eleonora Rocconi and first published on 25/02/2004.

Here is the Italian version of this entry.

Grammarian:

Name:

Heliodorus | Ἡλιόδωρος

Identity:

BNP

Place of Origin:

?

Date:

1st c. CE

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Biography:

Heliodorus was an Alexandrian1 scholar who lived around the mid-1st c. CE, and he prepared an edition of Aristophanes2 comedies, with colometric division of the text and metrical commentary; fragments of this have been reconstru…

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Rocconi, Eleonora, “Heliodorus”, in: Lexicon of Greek Grammarians of Antiquity. Consulted online on 19 March 2024 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2451-9278_Heliodorus>
First published online: 2015



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