Agallis

Agallis (Gr. polytonic|Ἀγαλλίς, fl. 2nd century BC) of Corcyra was a female grammarian who wrote about Homer, according to Athenaeus. [Athenaeus, "Deipnosophistae" i. p. 14, d.] Some scholars believe her to have belonged to the hetaerae class. [cite book
last =Hecker
first =Eugene Arthur
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title =A Short History of Women's Rights from the Days of Augustus to the Present Time
publisher =G. P. Putnam's Sons
date =1914
location =New York City
pages =42
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last =Pomeroy
first =Sarah B.
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title =Women in Hellenistic Egypt: From Alexander to Cleopatra
publisher =Wayne State University Press
date =1990
location =Detroit
pages =61
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Some have supposed from two passages in the Suda that we ought to read "Anagallis" in this passage of Athenaeus. [Suda, "s.v." polytonic|Ἀνάγαλλις and polytonic|Ὄρχησις] The scholiast on Homer and Eustathius ["ad Il." xviii. 491] mention a grammarian of the name of Agallias, a pupil of Aristophanes the grammarian, also a Corcyraean and a commentator upon Homer, who may be the same as Agallis, or perhaps her father. [Citation
last = Smith
first = William
author-link = William Smith (lexicographer)
contribution = Agallis
editor-last = Smith
editor-first = William
title = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
volume = 1
pages = 57
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place = Boston
year = 1870
contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0066.html ]

For a time in the 19th century, the name "Agallis" was thought to be the subject of one of the poems of Sappho. Later scholarship showed this to have been an erroneous interpretation of a corrupted text. [cite book
last =Parsons
first =Peter
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coauthors =T.P. Wiseman (ed.)
title =Classics in Progress: Essays on Ancient Greece and Rome
publisher =Oxford University Press
date =2006
location =Oxford
pages =53
url =http://books.google.com/books?id=7_ddt_LSl_wC&pg=PA53&dq=agallis&sig=ZHAuxxTICZYENmVtZd1V0w7xF-s
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isbn = 0-19-726323-2] [cite book
last =Bülow-Jacobsen
first =Adam
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title =Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Papyrologists
publisher =Museum Tusculanum Press
date =1992
location =Copenhagen
pages =121
url =http://books.google.com/books?id=QOYO2qHYOU4C&pg=PA121&dq=agallis&sig=EWrgskv6RFqUGHfzEdWFVHnEPgE
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isbn = 87-72-89264-1]

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