Lexicon to the Greek comedians (
Κωμικαὶ
λέξεις)
Theon was the author of a
Lexicon to the Greek comedians (
Κωμικαὶ λέξεις), which is quoted by Hesychius in the
Prooemium to his Lexicon. (Also,
s. v.
Σκίταλοι : see Ruhnken,
Praef. ad
Hesych. pp. ix. foll.) It is doubtful whether he was the author of the comic lexicon
quoted by the Scholiast to Apollonius Rhodius (iv. pp. 280, 305). He is one of the authors
from whose works the
Scholia to Aristophanes were derived.
Other Commentaries ascribed to a Theon
It is very possible that one or both of these Commentaries on Homer and Apollonius, should
be assigned to Aelius Theon, of Alexandria, No. 5, below.
Commentary on the
OdysseyA Commentary on the
Odyssey by a certain Theon is quoted in the
Etymologicum Magnum (s. v.
πύελος).
Commentary on Apollonius Rhodius
In one of the
Scholia on Aristophanes (
Nub. 397), the
genuineness of which, however, is doubtful (see Dindorf,
Annot. ad
loc.), Theon is mentioned as one of the commentators on Apollonius Rhodius.