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Encyclopedia Britannica



EUPHORION

This article appears in Volume V09, Page 894 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: EUD-FAT
EUPHORION ,
Greek
  poet and grammarian, born at Chalcis in Euboea about 275 B.C. He spent much of his
life
  in Athens, where he amassed
great
  wealth. About 221 he was invited by Antiochus the
Great
  to the
court
  of Syria. He assisted in the formation of the royal library at Antioch, of which he held the post of librarian till his death. He wrote mythological epics, amatory elegies, epigrams and a satirical poem ('Apal, " curses ") after the manner of the
Ibis
  of Callimachus.
Prose
  works on antiquities and history are also attributed to him. Like Lycophron, he was fond of using archaic and obsolete expressions, and the erudite
character
  of his allusions rendered his language very obscure. His elegies were highly esteemed by the Romans they were imitated or translated by Cornelius Gallus and alsc by the emperor Tiberius.
Fragments in
Meineke
 , " De Euphorionis Chalcidensis vita et scriptis," in his Analecta Alexandrina (1843); for a recently discovered fragment of about 30 lines see Berliner Klassikertexte, v. 1 (1907).


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