Demetrius Triclinius Explained

Demetrius Triclinius (el|Δημήτριος Τρικλίνιος; b.), a native of Thessalonica, was a Byzantine scholar who edited and analyzed the metrical structure of many texts from ancient Greece, particularly those of Aeschylus,^[1] Sophocles and Euripides. He is often compared favorably with two contemporary annotators of ancient Greek texts, Thomas Magister and Manuel Moschopulus. He also had knowledge of astronomy.

References

Bibliography

• Book: Aubreton, Robert . 1949 . Démétrius Triclinius et les recensions médiévales de Sophocle . Société d'Édition "Les Belles Lettres" . Paris . 291.
• Book: Wilson, N.G.. 1996. Scholars of Byzantium (rev. ed.) . Duckworth. London . 249–256.

See also

• Palaeologan Renaissance
• Byzantine scholars in Renaissance
• List of Macedonians (Greek)

Notes and References

1. Book: Smith, Ole Langwitz. Studies in the scholia on Aeschylus: The recensions of Demetrius Triclinius. 1975. Brill. 90-04-04220-2. 1659880.