Demetrius Triclinius

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In palaeography, Demetrius Triclinius,(~1300),a native of Thessalonica,was a Byzantine scholar who edited and analyzed the metrical structure of many texts from ancient Greece, particularly those of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. He is often compared favorably with two contemporary annotators of ancient Greek texts, Thomas Magister and Manuel Moschopulus.He had also knowledge of astronomy.

[edit] References

• Aubreton, Robert (1949). Démétrius Triclinius et les recensions médiévales de Sophocle. Paris: Société d'Édition "Les Belles Lettres", pp.291. 

[edit] See also

• Byzantine scholars in Renaissance
• List of Macedonians (Greek)