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Encyclopedia Britannica



PTOLEMAEUS

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 616 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PRE-PYR
PTOLEMAEUS , of
Alexandria
 , surnamed Chennus, Greek grammarian during the reigns of Trajan and Hadrian. According to Suidas, he was the author of an historical drama named
Sphinx
 , of an epic, Anthomeros, in 24 books (both lost) and a Strange History. The last is probably identical with the
work
  of which an abridgment has been preserved in Photius (cod. 190). It contains a medley of all sorts of legends and fables belonging to both the mythological and historical periods. It is probable that Chennus was also the author of a lost treatise on the life
and works of
Aristotle
 , ascribed to " Ptolemaeus " in an Arabic
list
  of his works, taken from a Syriac version of the Greek
original
  (A. Baum-
stark
 , Aristoteles bei den Syrern vom v.-viii. Jahrh.,
Leipzig
 , 1900).
See editions of Photius's abridgment by J. Roulez (1834) ; and in A. Westermann, Mythographs graeci (1843) ; R. Hercher, Ober die Glaubwiirdz keit der neuen Geschichte des Ptolemus Chennus (
Leipzig
 , 1856) ; J. E. Sandys, Hist. of Classical Scholarship (2nd ed., 1906).


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