Antipater of Acanthus

Antipater (Ancient Greek: Ἀντίπατρος) of Acanthus was a grammarian of ancient Greece, of uncertain date,[1][2] probably the same as the one mentioned by the Scholiast on Aristophanes.[3]

Some scholars consider this Antipater to be entirely fictional, and a source fabricated by Ptolemaeus Chennus, to assert the existence of a version of the Iliad that predates Homer's, written, Ptolemaeus said, by Dares Phrygius, a participant in the events of the Trojan War.[4][5][6]

References

  1. ↑ Ptolemaeus Chennus, ap. Phot. Cod.
  2. ↑ Eustathius of Thessalonica, ad Hom. Od. xi. p. 453
  3. ↑ Scholiast on Aristophanes Av. 1403
  4. ↑ Mheallaigh, Karen ní (2014). Reading Fiction with Lucian: Fakes, Freaks and Hyperreality. Greek Culture in the Roman World. Cambridge University Press. p. 122. ISBN 9781316123980. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
  5. ↑ Allen, Thomas William (1921). The Homeric Catalogue of Ships. Georg Olms Verlag. p. 30. ISBN 9783487420592. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
  6. ↑ Kim, Lawrence (2010). Homer between History and Fiction in Imperial Greek Literature. Greek Culture in the Roman World. Cambridge University Press. p. 179. ISBN 9781139490245. Retrieved 2016-01-30.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Leonhard Schmitz, Leonhard (1870). "Antipater". In Smith, William. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. p. 201. 

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