Ptolemaeus Chennus [SEP] residence
Ptolemaeus Chennus
Ptolemaeus Chennus or Chennos ("quail"), of Alexandria (), was a Greek grammarian during the reigns of Trajan and Hadrian.
According to the "Suda", he was the author of an historical drama named "Sphinx", of an epic, "Anthomeros", in 24 books (both lost) and a "Strange History". The last is probably identical with the "New History" in six books ascribed by Photius to Ptolemy Hephaestion, of which a summary outline has
Antipater of Acanthus
Antipater () of Acanthus was a grammarian of ancient Greece, of uncertain date, probably the same as the one mentioned by the Scholiast on Aristophanes.
Some scholars consider this Antipater to be entirely fictional, and a source fabricated by Ptolemaeus Chennus, to assert the existence of a version of the Iliad that predates Homer's, written, Ptolemaeus said, by Dares Phrygius, a participant in the events of the Trojan War.