# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/aristophanes-of-byzantium
# Generated: 2026-08-16T11:24:12.359Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/aristophanes-of-byzantium"
name: "Aristophanes of Byzantium"
slug: "aristophanes-of-byzantium"
description: "Aristophanes of Byzantium, not to be confused with Aristophanes of Athens, was a Hellenistic Greek scholar, critic and grammarian, particularly renowned for his work in Homeric scholarship, but also for work on other classical authors such as Pindar and Hesiod. He soon moved to Alexandria and studied under Zenodotus, Callimachus, and Dionysius Iambus. He succeeded Eratosthenes as head librarian of the Library of Alexandria at the age of sixty. His students included Callistratus, Aristarchus of Samothrace, and perhaps Agallis. He was succeeded by Apollonius \"The Classifier\". Aristophanes' pupil, Aristarchus of Samothrace, would be the sixth head librarian at the Library of Alexandria."
tagline: "Third-century BC Greek literary scholar and grammarian in Alexandria"
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birthDate: "-257"
deathDate: "-180"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump