Aristæus

Son of Apollo, protector of vineyards, herds, and beehives. Aristarchus, ab. 222-150 B.C. Most famous of Greek critics and grammarians, b. at Samothrace. He studied at Alexandria, was tutor to Ptolemy Epiphanes and Ptolemy Physcon, head of a grammatical school there, and devoted his life to the criticism and interpretation of Greek authors. His text of Homer is the basis of ours. When Physcon maltreated the Alexandrian scholars, he fled to Cyprus, where he committed suicide. He opposed the school of Pergamus, led by Crates of Mallus. He is often mentioned in the Venetian scholia to Homer, though no genuine works have survived.