Archemachus of Euboea

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Archemachus of Euboea (in Greek Aρχεμαχoς) wrote a work on his native island, which consisted at least of three books.[1] Whether this Archemachus was the author of the grammatical work Hai Metonymiai (Aι Μετωνυμιαι) [2], is uncertain.

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  1. ^ Strabo, Geographia, x.; Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae, vi.; Clement of Alexandria, Stromata, i.; Harpocration, Lexicon, s. v. "kotylaion oros"; Plutarch, Moralia, "De Iside et Osiride", 27
  2. ^ Scholium ad Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica, iv. 262

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1867).