person
Aristarchus of Samothrace
Aristarchus
The great Alexandrian critic and editor of Homer; a byword for exacting literary judgment, against which Ovid measures the labor of revision.
Reading notes
- Letters from the Black Sea §3.9 Aristarchus
Aristarchus of Samothrace, the great Alexandrian editor of Homer; a byword for severe textual criticism, against whom Ovid measures his own failure to revise.