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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 published on 04/04/2019.

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Biography:

Theon, the son of Artemidorus of Tarsus¹, a follower of Aristophanes of Byzantium², lived in the Augustan Age or in the final years of the Republican period (Bongelli 2000, p. 281) and led the philological school of Alexandria³ before Apion⁴ (Matth…