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Apion (
20s BC - c.
45 AD), Graeco-Egyptian
grammarian,
sophist and commentator on
Homer, was born at the
Siwa Oasis, and flourished in the first half of the
1st century AD.
He studied at
Alexandria, and headed one of the deputations sent to
Caligula (in
40) by the various Alexandrian communities following inter communal riots that left many Greeks and Jews dead. Apion's criticisms of Jewish culture and history were replied to by
Josephus in
Against Apion.
He settled at Rome -- it's uncertain when -- and taught rhetoric until the reign of
Claudius. He wrote several works, none of which has survived. The well-known story "Androclus and the Lion", preserved in
Aulus Gellius, is from his work. Fragments of his work are printed the
Etymologicum Gudianum, ed. Sturz, 1818.
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