Apollonius, surnamed "the Sophist," was a famous grammarian, who probably lived towards the end of the 1st century A.D. and taught in Rome in Tiberius' times. He was born in Alexandria, the son of another grammarian, Archibius. City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Left-Wing Democrats) Area  - City Proper  1290 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2,546,807 almost 4,000,000 1... A bust of younger Emperor Tiberius For the city in Israel, see Tiberias. ... Antiquity and modernity stand cheek-by-jowl in Egypts chief Mediterranean seaport Located on the Mediterranean Sea coast, Alexandria (in Arabic, الإسكندرية, transliterated al-ʼIskandariyyah) is the chief seaport in Egypt, and that countrys second largest city, and the capital...

He was the author of a Homeric lexicon (Λεξεις Ὁμηρικαι), the only work of the kind we possess. His chief authorities were Aristarchus and Apion's Homeric glossary (although some sources cite Apion as a disciple of Apollonius). Bust of Homer in the British Museum For other uses, see Homer (disambiguation). ... A lexicon is usually a list of words together with additional word-specific information, i. ... Aristarchus (310 BC - circa 230 BC) was a Greek astronomer and mathematician, born in Samos, Greece. ... Apion, Greek grammarian and commentator on Homer, was born at the Siwa Oasis, and flourished in the first half of the 1st century AD. He studied at Alexandria, and headed a deputation sent to Caligula (in 38) by the Alexandrians to complain of the Jews. ...

It was edited for the first time by Villoison (1773) 2 vol. in-4° from a manuscript of Saint Germain, and also by I. Bekker (1833).

References

• Leyde, De Apollonii Sophistae Lexico Homerico (1885)
• E. W. B. Nicholson on a newly discovered fragment in Classical Review (Nov. 1897)
• Biographical Dictionary Imago Mundi - Apollonius (in French)
• This article incorporates text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, which is in the public domain.