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This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Lara Pagani and first published on 16/11/2007.

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Biography:

Known from a few surviving fragments, the grammarian Posidonius was an ἀναγνώστης of Aristarchus¹, as we know from the scholia to the Iliad² and Eustathius³, who drew on them (Sch. Il. 6, 511a. 17, 75a, cf. Eustath. ad Il. 659, 15–18. 1096, 12–15). Thi…