Apion
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Apion Pleistonices · Apion the grammarian · the grammarian Apion
in the texts
Stromata
Apion the grammarian, surnamed Pleistonices, an Egyptian author hostile to the Jews, cited for his testimony about Amosis and the Exodus.
Apion the grammarian, then, surnamed Pleistonices, in the fourth book of his Egyptian Histories — though he was hostile in disposition toward the Hebrews, being an Egyptian by race, so that he even composed a book against the Jews — mentioning Amosis, king of the Egyptians, and the deeds done in his time, cites as witness Ptolemy of Mendes.
Letters to Lucilius
Grammarian who traveled Greece during the reign of Gaius Caesar (Caligula), claimed to be adopted into Homer's name
The grammarian Apion, who went about all Greece in the days of Gaius Caesar and was adopted into the name of Homer by all the cities, used to say that Homer, when he had finished both his works, the Iliad and the Odyssey, added a beginning to his poem, in which he embraced the whole Trojan war.
Apologeticum
Historian listed among sources for antiquity verification.
their followers too, Ptolemy of Mendes and Menander of Ephesus and Demetrius of Phalerum and King Juba and Apion and Thallus, and whoever either approves or convicts these;