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Ptolemaeus
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or of Alexandria, surnamed Chennus, Greek grammarian during the reigns of Trajan and Hadrian. According to Suidas, he was the author of an historical drama named Sphinx, of an epic, Anthomeros, in 24 books (both lost) and a Strange History. The last is probably identical with the work of which an abridgment has been preserved in Photius (cod. 190). It contains a medley of all sorts of legends and fables belonging to both the mythological and historical periods. It is probable that Chennus was also the author of a lost treatise on the life and works of Aristotle, ascribed to "Ptolemaeus" in an Arabic list of his works, taken from a Syriac version of the Greek original (A. Baum stark, Aristoteles bei den Syrern vom v.-viii. Jahrh., Leipzig, 1900).
See editions of Photius's abridgment by J. Roulez (1834); and in A. Westermann, Mythographi graeci (1843); R. Hercher, fiber die Glaubwurdi keit der neuen Geschichte des Ptolemdus Chennus (Leipzig, 1856); J. E. Sandys, Hist. of Classical Scholarship (2nd ed., 1906).
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Ptolemaeus'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/p/ptolemaeus.html. 1910.
