Person

Aristarchus of Samothrace

Greek grammarian

b. 220 BCE – d. 143 BCE World The Middle of The Earth

Aristarchus of Samothrace (220?–143 BCE?)

is a grammarian noted as the most influential of all scholars of Homeric poetry.

He is the librarian of the library of Alexandria and seems to have succeeded his teacher Aristophanes of Byzantium in that role.