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Aristarchus of Samothrace
Aristarchus of Samothrace, Gr. Αρισταρχος (220? - 143 BC?) was a Greek critic and grammarian. A pupil of Aristophanes of Byzantium, he was a librarian of the Library of Alexandria. He established a critic edition of the Homeric poems and divided the Iliad and Odyssey into twenty-four books each.
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