The poetic works of Alcaeus were collected into ten books, with elaborate commentaries, by the Alexandrian scholars Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace sometime in the 3rd century BC, and yet his verses today exist only in fragmentary form, varying in size from mere phrases, such as wine, window into a man ( fr. 333 ) to entire groups of verses and stanzas, such as those quoted below ( fr. 346 ).

Alexandrian scholars numbered him in their canonic nine ( one lyric poet per Muse ).

In the ancient world, at the Alexandrian Library, scholars coined the Greek term Hoi enkrithentes (“ the admitted ”, “ the included ”) to identify the writers in the canon.

The first extant grammar of Greek, " Art of Grammar " ( Tékhnē grammatiké, Greek: ) is attributed to him but many scholars today doubt that the work really belongs solely to him due to the difference between the technical approach of most of the work and the more literary approach ( similar to the 2nd century's Alexandrian tradition ) of the first few sections.

" Thus Thrax, like contemporary Alexandrian scholars who edited Attic Greek and Homeric texts, was concerned with facilitating the teaching of classic Greek literature to an audience who spoke Koine Greek.

The narrative structure allows for this diversity through simple stylistic devices such as the principle of ring composition, familiar since the time of Homer, in which the introduction and conclusion of a story or sub-plot is signalled by the repetition of some formulaic statement, facilitating the reader's comprehension of stories within stories in a kind of ' Chinese-box technique '— a structure that has no resemblance to the nine books artificially created by Alexandrian scholars.

Many scholars believe it was developed by Alexandrian editors of the 3rd century BC.

Alexandrian scholars in fact interpreted a number of passages in Pindar as hostile allusions to Bacchylides and Simonides and this interpretation has been endorsed by modern scholars also.

θ and the use of the Doric accentuation, though it is uncertain whether these features were actually present in Alcman's original compositions or were added either by Laconian performers in the subsequent generations ( see Hinge's opinion below ) or even by Alexandrian scholars who gave the text a Doric feel using features of the contemporary, and not the ancient, Doric dialect.

Little of his work survives despite its interest to Alexandrian scholars, who collected it in two or three books.

The rise of Koine is conventionally marked by the accession in 285 BC of ( Greek-speaking ) Ptolemy II, who ruled from Alexandria, Egypt and launched the " Alexandrian period ", when the city of Alexandria and its expatriate Greek-medium scholars flourished.

His work was collected by Alexandrian scholars in just two " books " ( relatively few compared for example with the twenty-six books for Stesichorus ) and today only small fragments survive.

The majority of textual critical scholars since the late 19th Century, have adopted an eclectic approach to the Greek New Testament ; with the most weight given to the earliest extant manuscripts which tend mainly to be Alexandrian in character ; the resulting eclectic Greek text departing from the Textus Receptus in around 6, 000 readings.

The discovery of older manuscripts, which belong to the Alexandrian text-type, including the 4th century Codex Vaticanus and Codex Sinaiticus, led scholars to revise their view about the original Greek text.

A literary dispute with Callimachus, another Alexandrian librarian / poet, is a topic much discussed by modern scholars since it is thought to give some insight into their poetry, athough there is very little evidence that there ever was such a dispute between the two men.

Formerly assumed to be identical with the Alexandrian grammarian and lexicographer Didymus Chalcenterus, because Ptolemy and Porphyry referred to him as Didymus ho mousikos ( the musician ), classical scholars now believe that this Didymus was a younger grammarian and musician working in Rome at the time of Nero ( Richter 2001 ).

Caesarean text-type is the term proposed by certain scholars to denote a consistent pattern of variant readings that is claimed to be apparent in certain Greek manuscripts of the four Gospels, but which is not found in any of the other commonly recognized New Testament text-types ; the Byzantine text-type, the Western text-type and the Alexandrian text-type.

Most scholars view uncial text as the most accurate ; however, a few authors ( such as New Testament scholar Maurice A. Robinson and linguist Wilbur Pickering ), Arthur Farstad and Zane C. Hodges claim that the minuscule texts ( the Byzantine text-type ) more accurately reflect the " autographs " or original texts than an eclectic text like NA27 that relies heavily on manuscripts of the Alexandrian text-type.

) He was one of the eight exemplary historiographers included in the Alexandrian canon.

He was one of the ten Attic orators included in the " Alexandrian Canon " compiled by Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace in the third century BC.

Hellenistic Alexandrian culture expressed religion through a syncretism that included influences from Egypt, Chaldea, Greece etc.

He was one of the ten Attic orators included in the " Alexandrian Canon " compiled by Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace in the third century BCE.

In fact more than half of the extant elegiac poetry of Greece before the Alexandrian period is included in the approximately 1, 400 verses attributed to him.

The reform eventually went into effect with the introduction of the " Alexandrian calendar " by Augustus in 26 / 25 BCE, which included a 6th epagomenal day for the first time in 22 BCE.

In most modern-day translations based primarily on the Alexandrian Text, it is included but is accompanied by brackets or by special notes, or both.

He was one of the ten Attic orators included in the " Alexandrian Canon " compiled by Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace in the third century BC.

He was the last of the ten Attic orators included in the " Alexandrian Canon " compiled by Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace in the third century BC.

With the formation of the Alexandrian School c. 330 BCE medicine flourished and written herbals of this period included those of the physicians Herophilus, Mantias, Andreas of Karystos, Appolonius Mys, and Nicander.

Beside polemics, Sophronius ' writings included an encomium on the Alexandrian martyrs Cyrus and John in gratitude for an extraordinary cure of his failing vision.

Thus we have two poems of Aratus, who, though not resident at Alexandria, was so thoroughly imbued with the Alexandrian spirit as to be included in the school ; the one is an essay on astronomy, the other an account of the signs of the weather.

The following members are usually always included in the " Alexandrian Pleiad ":

After Christians in Ephesus first wrote to their counterparts recommending Apollos to them, he went to Achaia where Paul names him as an apostle ( 1 Cor 4: 6, 9-13 ) Given that Paul only saw himself as an apostle ' untimely born ' ( 1 Cor 15: 8 ) it is certain that Apollos became an apostle in the regular way ( as a witness to the risen Lord and commissioned by Jesus-1 Cor 15: 5-9 ; 1 Cor 9: 1 ).< ref > So the Alexandrian recension ; the text in < sup > 38 </ sup > and Codex Bezae indicate that Apollos went to Corinth.

He influenced Alexandrian poets searching for alternative styles and uses of language, such as Callimachus and Herodas, and his colourful reputation as an acerbic, social critic also made him a popular subject for verse, as in this epigram by Theocritus:

Antimachus was the founder of " learned " epic poetry, and the forerunner of the Alexandrian school, whose critics allotted him the next place to Homer.

The poetic compositions of Lycophron chiefly consisted of tragedies, which secured him a place in the Pleiad of Alexandrian tragedians.

His first published writings appeared in 1905 and attracted the attention of Valery Bryusov, who invited him to contribute to his influential literary magazine Vesy ( The Balance ), the center of the Symbolist movement, where in 1906 he published his verse cycle " Alexandrian Songs " ( modeled on Les Chansons de Bilitis, by Pierre Louÿs ) and the first Russian novel with a homosexual theme, Wings, which instantly achieved notoriety and made him a widely popular writer.

Since Alexander IV Aegus was the legitimate heir to the Alexandrian empire, Cassander ordered him and Roxana assassinated about 310 BC.

While the vessel de Lesseps sailed to Egypt in was in quarantine at the Alexandrian lazaretto, M. Mimaut, consul-general of France at Alexandria, sent him several books, among which was the memoir written upon the Suez Canal, according to Napoleon Bonaparte's instructions, by the civil engineer Jacques-Marie Le Père, one of the scientific members of the French expedition.

: αἰτῆσαι αὐτόν ( ask him ) Byzantine and Alexandrian mss., rell

The philosopher Menedemus thought his plays second only to Aeschylus, he was part of the Alexandrian canon, and Didymus wrote a commentary on him.

Although his orations were placed fifth in the Alexandrian canon, still we do not hear of any of the grammarians having written commentaries on him, except Didymus of Alexandria.

It is now generally held that he may possibly have written the account of the Alexandrian war ( although the claims of Hirtius are considered stronger ), but certainly not those of the Spanish and the African wars, although Niebuhr confidently assigned the Bellum Africanum to him.

He has been given an exaggerated importance by some commentators, who have regarded him as the forerunner of the Alexandrian School of philosophy.

All the clergy of Alexandria and Lower Egypt honored him with the appellation Papas, which means Father, as the Senior and Elder Bishop among all bishops, within the Egyptian Province, who are under his jurisdiction, three centuries before it was assumed by Pope John I Bishop of Rome ( 523-526 ), who ratified the Alexandrian computation of the date of Easter.