Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—A

Alexandrian School

An academy of literature by Ptolemy, son of Lagos, especially famous for its grammarians and mathematicians. Of its grammarians the most noted are Aristarchos, Harpocration, and Eratosthenes; and of its mathematicians, Ptolemy and Euclid, the former an astronomer, and the latter the geometer whose Elements are still very generally used.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
Alexandrine Age
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