Chorizontes

Chorizontes (Ancient Greek: χωρίζοντες; "separators") was the name given to a group of ancient Alexandrian scholars who argued that the Iliad and Odyssey were not written by the same person. The best known of them were the grammarians Xenon and Hellanicus,^[1] but they are nonetheless extremely obscure figures about whom nothing else is known. Aristarchus of Samothrace was one of their opponents.^[2]

See also

• Homeric scholarship

References

1. Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Chorizontesref
2. Chisholm 1911.

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Chorizontes". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 270.