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: Schmitz, Leonhard (1870). "Antipater". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. p. 201.

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