Demetrius of Magnesia

Demetrius of Magnesia (1st century BC) was a Greek grammarian and biographer, and a contemporary of Cicero and Atticus.^[1] He had, in Cicero's recollection, sent Atticus a work of his on concord, (Greek: περὶ όμονοἰας), which Cicero also was anxious to read. A second work of his, which is often referred to, was of an historical and philological nature, and treated of poets and other authors who bore the same name (Greek: Περὶ ὁμωνύμων ποιητῶν καὶ συγγραφέων).^[2] This important work, to judge from what is quoted from it, contained the lives of the persons, and a critical examination of their merits.

Notes

1. ^ Cicero, ad Atticum, viii. 11, iv. 11
2. ^ Diogenes Laërtius, i. 38, 79, 112, ii. 52, 56, v. 3, 75, 89, vi. 79, 84, 88, vii. 169, 183, viii. 84, ix. 15, 27, 35, x. 13; Plutarch Vit. X. Orat, Demothenes 15, 27, 28, 30; Harpocrat. Ispios, and many other passages; Athenaeus, xiii.; Dionys. Deinarch. 1.

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).