Homerus of Byzantium
Homerus of Byzantium was an ancient Greek grammarian and tragic poet. He was also called ho Neoteros, to distinguish him from the older Homerus.
The son of the grammarian Andromachus Philologus and the poet Moero, he flourished in the beginning of the 3rd century BC, in the court of Ptolemy II Philadelphus at Alexandria. Together with his main rival, Sositheus, he is counted among the seven great tragics of the Alexandrian canon, or "Pleiad". Homerus is variously attributed 45, 47 or 57 plays, all of them now lost. Only the title of one, Eurypyleia, survives.
