Antipater of Acanthus

Antipater () of Acanthus was a grammarian of ancient Greece, of uncertain date,Ptolemaeus Chennus, ap. Phot. Cod.Eustathius of Thessalonica, ad Hom. Od. xi. p. 453 probably the same as the one mentioned by the Scholiast on Aristophanes.Scholiast on Aristophanes Av. 1403

Some scholars consider this Antipater to be entirely fictional, and a source fabricated by Ptolemaeus Chennus, to assert the existence of a version of the Iliad that predates Homer's, written, Ptolemaeus said, by Dares Phrygius, a participant in the events of the Trojan War.

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