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CHERSONISSOS (Ancient city) EGYPT
Archelaus (Archelaos), a Greek Poet, is called an Egyptian, and is believed to
have been a native of a town in Egypt called Chersonesus, as he is also called
Chersonesita (Antig. Caryst. 19 ; Athen. xii.). He wrote epigrams, some of which
are still extant in the Greek Anthology, and Jacobs seems to infer from an epigram
of his on Alexander the Great (Anthol. Planud. 120) that Archelaus lived in the
time of Alexander and Ptolemy Soter. Lobeck, on the other hand, places him in
the reign of Ptolemy Euergetes II. But both of these opinions are connected with
chronological difficulties, and Westermann has shewn that Archelaus in all probability
flourished under Ptolemy Philadelphus, to whom, according to Antigonus Carystius,
he narrated wonderful stories (paradoxa) in epigrams. Besides this peculiar kind
of epigrams, Archelaus wrote a work called idiophue, i. e. strange or peculiar
animals (Athen. ix.; Diog. Laert. ii. 17), which seems to have likewise been written
in verse, and to have treated on strange and paradoxical subjects, like his epigrams
(Plin. Elench. lib. xxviii.; Schol. ad Nicand. Ther. 822; Artemid. Oneirocr. iv.
22).
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Oct 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Euphorion. Of Chersonesus, an author of that kind of licentious poetry which was called Priapeia, is mentioned by Hephaestion (de Metr. xv. 59), who gives three verses, which do not, however, appear to be consecutive, but are probably single verses chosen as specimens of the metre. But yet some information may be gleaned from them, for the poet refers to rites in honour of the " young Dionysus," celebrated at Pelusium. Hence Meineke infers that this Euphorion was an Egyptian Greek, and that the Chersonesus of which he was a native was the city of that name near Alexandria. He also conjectures, and upon good grounds, that the " young Dionysus" was Ptolemy Philopator, who began to reign in B. C. 220. It is probable that the passage in Strabo (viii.) refers to this Euphorion, and that Euphronios in that passage is an error for Euphorion. There is an example of the same confusion in Athenaeus (xi.). That those who make this Euphorion the same as the Chalcidian are quite wrong, is proved by the fact that the lines are neither hexameters nor elegiacs, but in the priapeian metre, which is a kind of antispastic. (Meineke, Analecta Alexandrina, Epim. i.)
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Oct 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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