person
Apion
Apion, Alexandrian grammarian of the time of Tiberius and Gaius, a showman-lecturer on Homer; Seneca reports his fanciful claim about a numerological signature in the Iliad's first line.
Reading notes
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §88.40 Apion
Showman grammarian of the early empire, famed for lectures on Homer; Seneca reports his fanciful claim of a hidden book-number in the Iliad's first line.