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'''Aristarchus''' ([[Greek language|Greek]]: Αρίσταρχος) [[220 BC|220]]? - [[143 BC]]?), from the [[Greece|Greek]] island of [[Samothrace]], was a grammarian and is noted as the most influential of all scholars of [[Homer]]ic poetry. He was the librarian of the [[Library of Alexandria]], and seems to have succeeded his teacher [[Aristophanes of Byzantium]] in that role. He established the most historically important critical edition of the [[Homer]]ic poems. It is likely that he or, more probably, another predecessor at Alexandria, [[Zenodotus]], was responsible for the division of the ''[[Iliad]]'' and ''[[Odyssey]]'' into twenty-four books each. The historical connection of his name to literary criticism has created the term ''aristarch'' for someone who is a judgmental critic.

==See also==
*[[Homeric scholarship]]
*External link: [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01303a.htm New Advent Encyclopedia article on Library of Alexandria]

[[Category:Ancient Greek writers]]
[[Category:Homer]]

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Irlandos at 09:49, March 19, 2006