Ptolemaeus Chennus
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Ptolemaeus Chennus
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Ptolemy Chennus or Chennos ("quail"), was an Alexandrine 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 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 been preserved in Photius' Biblioteca, who observed sarcastically of its credulous author that he found it "a work
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