2. Of ALEXANDRIA, a grammarian, lived after Aristarchus, whose
recension of the Homeric poems he attacked. He is distinguished by the epithet
Suidas assigns the following works to him :
Suidas mentions only two grammarians of the name of Zenodotus, the Ephesian and the
Alexandrine; but besides these we read of two others, Zenodotus ad Arat. Phaen. 33);
and Zenodotus ad Hom. Il. 23.79.)
Wolf thinks (Prolegom. p. cxcix.) that the two last are the same
person as the Alexandrine; that he was called of Mallus from the place
of his birth, the Alexandrine from the place of his residence, and the
Cratetean, from his being a disciple of Crates, who was also a native
of Mallus. He remarks that as Crates was the great opponent of Aristarchus, his disciple
would naturally be the adversary of the same great scholar. It may readily be admitted that
Zenodotus of Mallus and Zenodotus the disciple of Crates are the same person; but it appears
improbable that the same person should have had two such opposite surnames as
We are therefore disposed to adopt the views of Düntzer and other scholars that there
were three grammarians of this name,
It is very likely however that some of the works assigned by Suidas to the Alexandrine were
written by the disciple of Crates. (Düntzer, De Zenodoti Studiis
Homericis, pp. 24, 25.)