Chalkenteros

Japanese: Chalkenteros
Chalkenteros

…He is considered to be the scholar who played a role in bringing together the academic research of the Alexandrian school, which had Aristarchus of Samothrace at its apex. He wrote “The Criticism of Aristarchus,” which clarified the problem of Aristarchus’s revision of Homer, which was already unclear at the time, and is said to have written 4,000 volumes of works, including commentaries on Greek classical works, and was nicknamed “Iron Stomach Chalkenteros” for his vast knowledge. All of his works have been lost, but as far as can be seen from old annotations of classical works, it is assumed that his main talent was in compiling the work of his predecessors, rather than investigating the problem of textual revision himself. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Chalkenteros" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…サモトラケのアリスタルコスを頂点とするアレクサンドリア学派の学問研究を集大成する役割を果たした学者と目されている。《アリスタルコスの校訂》を著し,当時すでにあいまいになっていたアリスタルコスのホメロス校訂問題を明らかにしたほか,ギリシア古典作品への注釈書など4000巻にも及ぶ著作を著したと伝えられ,その博識から〈鉄の胃袋Chalkenteros〉と通称されていた。彼の著作はすべて消失したが,古典作品への古注の記事からうかがわれる限りでは,彼の本領はテキスト校訂問題をみずから検討することより,むしろ先人の業績をまとめることにあったと推定される。…

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