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ZOYLUS (c. 400-320 B.C.) , Greek grammarian of Amphipolis in Macedonia. According to Vitruvius (vii., preface ) he lived during the age of Ptolemy
punishment of his criticisms on the king. This account, however, should probably be rejected. Zoilus appears to have been at one time a follower of Isocrates, but subsequently a pupil of Polycrates, whom he heard at Athens, where he was a teacher of rhetoric. Zoilus was chiefly known for the acerbity of his attacks on Homer (which gained him the name of Homeromastix, " scourge of Homer "), chiefly directed against the fabulous element
malignant critic.See U. Friedlander, De Zoilo aiiisque Homeri Obtrectatoribus ( Konigsberg
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