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Artemon of Cassandreia

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Artemon (Ancient Greek: Ἀρτέμων) of Cassandreia was an ancient Macedonian grammarian, who seems to have lived after 316 BCE.

He is mentioned by Athenaeus as the author of the following works:

1. Περὶ συναγωγῆς (or, according to others, ἀναγωγῆς) Βιβλίων, which would either be on collecting books, or on assigning books to their proper authors.[1]

2. Περὶ Βιβλίων χρήσεως, or Περὶ χρήσεως τῶν περὶ τὰς συνουσίας ᾀδομένων.[2]

He is perhaps the same as the author of a work περὶ Διονυσιακοῦ συστήματος, also quoted by Athenaeus, without any distinguishing epithet.[3]

There is also a work on painters (περὶ ζωγράφων) which is ascribed to an Artemon, who may be the same author.[4] The classical scholar Johann Albert Fabricius was inclined to believe that Artemon of Cassandreia is the one of whom Demetrius speaks as the person who collected letters of Aristotle.[5]

References

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  1. ^ Athenaeus, xii. p. 515
  2. ^ Athenaeus 15.694.
  3. ^ Athenaeus, xiv. pp. 636, 637
  4. ^ Harpocration, s.v. Πολύγνωτος
  5. ^ Demetrius, de Elocut. 231

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainSchmitz, Leonhard (1870). "Artemon (1)". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.