- Agresphon
Agresphon (Gr. polytonic|Ἀγρέσφων), or possibly Agreophon, was an ancient Greek
grammarian mentioned in theSuda . [Suda , "s.v." polytonic|Ἀπολλώνιος] He wrote a work on persons withhomonym ous names, sometimes called in English "On Namesakes" (polytonic|Περὶ Ὁμωνύμων).He cannot have lived earlier than the reign of
Hadrian , as in his work he spoke of anApollonius who lived in the time of that emperor.Citation | last = Mason | first = Charles Peter | author-link = | contribution = Agresphon | editor-last = Smith | editor-first = William | title =Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology | volume = 1 | pages = 75 | publisher =Little, Brown and Company | place = Boston | year = 1867 | contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0084.html ] Scholars generally date him to the late 3rd or early4th century .Agresphon's book on homonymous people was thought to have been similar to, or perhaps dependent upon, a work by
Demetrius of Magnesia , which bears the same title, and was written around the1st century BC . There is some debate as to whether his name was properly "Agresphon" or "Agreophon".cite book | last = Schepens | first = G. | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Die Fragmente Der Griechischen Historiker: Continued | publisher =Brill Publishers | date = 1998 | location = Leiden | pages = 258-260 | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=wOTq8nXKIWoC | doi = | id = | isbn = 90-04-11304-5]Another, unrelated Agreophon who was father of
Zenon around the3rd century BC is mentioned frequently in the papyri of theZenon Archive .References
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