fl. 2nd century BCE · head of the Library · classifier of lyric poetry
Apollonius the Eidographer
Ἀπολλώνιος ὁ εἰδογράφος
Known · AttestedWorked in Alexandria.
In Alexandria: c. 190–175 BCE
"The Classifier", named in P.Oxy. 1241 as head between Aristophanes and Aristarchus. His name is thought to come from sorting lyric poems by their musical kind (eidos). Nothing else of his is known.
Our device: Their emblem is a lyre. No likeness of any of these people is drawn. The emblems are our devices.
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Sources (3)
- P.Oxy. X 1241 (ed. B. P. Grenfell and A. S. Hunt, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri X, London 1914) col. ii (opens in a new tab)
- R. Pfeiffer, History of Classical Scholarship from the Beginnings to the End of the Hellenistic Age (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968)
- J. Murray, "Burned after Reading: The So-Called List of Alexandrian Librarians in P. Oxy. X 1241", Aitia 2 (2012) (opens in a new tab)