Apion

Apion (20s BC - c. 45-48 AD), Graeco-Egyptian grammarian , sophist and commentator on Homer , was born at the Siwa Oasis , and flourished in the first half of the 1st century AD. Apion studied at Alexandria , and headed one of the deputations sent to Caligula (in 40) to attack the Jews with claims of disloyalty following inter communal riots that left many Greeks and Jews dead. Apion's criticisms of Jewish culture and history were replied to by Josephus in Against Apion . He settled in Rome at an unknown date. Apion taught rhetoric until the reign of Claudius . He wrote several works, none of which has survived. The well-known story " Androclus and the Lion ", which is preserved in Aulus Gellius is from his work: Aegypytiacorum ("Wonders of Egypt") . The surviving fragments of his work are printed the Etymologicum Gudianum , ed.

AD 45-48 ), also known as Plistonices , a Hellenized Egyptian grammarian , sophist and commentator on Homer , was born at the Siwa Oasis , and flourished in the first half of the 1st century AD. He settled in Rome at an unknown date. Apion taught rhetoric until the reign of Claudius . He wrote several works, none of which has survived. The well-known story " Androclus and the Lion ", which is preserved in Aulus Gellius is from his work: Aegyptiaca ("Wonders of Egypt") . The surviving fragments of his work are printed in the Etymologicum Gudianum , ed. Following intra and inter-communal violence in Alexandria a deputation of Greeks and a deputation of Jews was sent to Rome to argue community interests before Caligula (in 40) in response to conflict between Greeks, Jews and Egyptians. Apion's criticisms of Jewish culture and history were replied to by Josephus in Against Apion .

AD 45-48 ) was a Hellenized Egyptian grammarian , sophist , and commentator on Homer . He was born at the Siwa Oasis and flourished in the first half of the 1st century AD. His name is sometimes incorrectly spelt Appion, and some sources, as in the Suda , call him a son of Pleistoneices, while others more correctly state that Pleistoneices was only a surname, and that he was the son of Poseidonius.

1st century BC / 1st century AD Hellenized Egyptian grammarian and sophist This article is about the ancient Egyptian grammarian. Apion Pleistoneices ( Apíōn Pleistoníkēs ; 30–20 BC – c. AD 45–48), also called Apion Mochthos , was a Hellenized Egyptian grammarian , sophist , and commentator on Homer . He was born at the Siwa Oasis and flourished in the first half of the 1st century AD. His name is sometimes incorrectly spelt Appion, and some sources, as in the Suda , call him a son of Pleistoneices, while others more correctly state that Pleistoneices was only a surname, and that he was the son of Poseidonius.

1st century CE grammarian and sophist This article is about the ancient Egyptian grammarian. Apion ( Greek : Ἀπίων ; fl. 1st century CE), also called Apion Pleistoneices ( Greek : Ἀπίων Πλειστονίκου , Apíōn Pleistoníkēs ) and Apion Mochthos (μόχθος) was a Greek or Graeco-Egyptian scholar of Ptolemaic Egypt , born in the El Kargeh oasis. He studied under Didymus Chalcenterus and later succeeded Theon as head of the Alexandrian school . Apion gained recognition as a lecturer, speaking in Rome and elsewhere. In 40 CE, he was part of a delegation sent by the Greek community of Alexandria to the Roman Emperor Gaius ( Caligula ) following anti-Jewish riots . The Jewish historian Josephus criticized Apion extensively in Book 2 of his polemic Against Apion ( Lat : Contra Apionem ). Details of his life come almost exclusively from other ancient sources, most prominently Pliny the Elder , Aulus Gellius , as well as the 10th century Byzantine encyclopedia the Suda . According to Aulus Gellius, wrote a version of the folk tale " Androcles and the Lion " ( Noctes Atticae 5.14). Pliny related that Apion claimed to have summoned the spirit of Homer to determine the poet’s origins ( Natural History 30.6.18). He wrote an alphabetic glossary of Homeric themes—a work, like others of its kind, based on the scholarship of Aristarchus of Samothrace (c. 220 – c. 143 BCE); it survives only in fragments and through the writings of Apollonius the Sophist . According to the Suda , he was dubbed " Mochthos" (μόχθος), a word meaning "toil, labor, hardship, or trouble" in reference to his tireless work habits.