Gaius Julius Hyginus
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Gaius Julius Hyginus
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Gaius Julius Hyginus was a Latin author, a pupil of the scholar Alexander Polyhistor, and a freedman of Caesar Augustus. He was elected superintendent of the Palatine library by Augustus according to Suetonius' De Grammaticis, 20. It is not clear whether Hyginus was a native of the Iberian Peninsula or of Alexandria. Suetonius remarks that Hyginus fell into great poverty in his old age and was supported by the historian Clodius Licinus. Hyginus was a voluminous author: his works included topogra
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Roman freedman and writer (c. 64 BC – AD 17)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaius_Julius_Hyginus
date created:
2002-11-03T18:27:41Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T20:52:21Z
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