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This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Valeria Novembri and published on 07/11/2019.

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Biography:

The sole biographical information for Philostephanus in our possession comes from Athenaeus¹ (8, 331d–e), who calls him a native of Cyrene and a γνώριμος of Callimachus², thus using the same term attested in P.Oxy.…