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Encyclopedia Britannica



CHRISTODORUS

This article appears in Volume V06, Page 295 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CHR-CLI
CHRISTODORUS , of Coptos in
Egypt
 , epic poet, flourished during the reign of Anastasius I. (A.n. 491-518). According to Suidas, he was the author of IIIvrpta, accounts of the foundation of various cities; Au&axa, the mythical history of
Lydia
 ; 'Icavpuda, the conquest of
Isauria
  by Anastasius; three books of epigrams; and many other works. In addition to two epigrams (Anthol. Pal. vii. 697, 698) we possess a description of eighty statues of gods, heroes and famous men and women in the gymnasium of Zeuxippus at
Constantinople
 . This Ee paver, consisting of 4r6 hexameters, forms the second book of the Palatine
Anthology
 . The writer's
chief
  models are
Homer
  and Nonnus, whom he follows closely in the structure of his hexameters. Opinions are divided as to the merits of the
work
 . Some critics regard it as of
great
  importance for the history of art and a model of description; others consider it valueless, alike from the historical, mythological and archaeological points of view.
See F. Baumgarten, De Christodoro poets Theban (1881), and his article in Pauly-Wissowa's Realencycdopadie, iii. 2 (1899); W. Christ, Geschichte der griechischen Litteratur (1898).


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