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- Gaius Julius Hyginus (/ hɪˈdʒaɪnəs /; c. 64 BC – AD 17) was a Latin author, a pupil of the scholar Alexander Polyhistor, and a freedman of Caesar Augustus. He was elected superintendent of the Palatine library by Augustus according to Suetonius' De Grammaticis, 20.
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Gaius Julius Hyginus (/ h ɪ ˈ dʒ aɪ n ə s /; c. 64 BC – AD 17) was a Latin author, a pupil of the scholar Alexander Polyhistor, and a freedman of Caesar Augustus. He was elected superintendent of the Palatine library by Augustus according to Suetonius' De Grammaticis, 20.
Gaius Julius Hyginus was a Latin author and scholar who, according to Suetonius (De Grammaticis, 20), was appointed by Augustus superintendent of the Palatine library. He went to Rome from Spain or Alexandria as a slave or perhaps a prisoner of war and was freed by Augustus.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
We likewise do not know whether Micyllus found the attribution “Gaius Julius Hyginus, freedman of Augustus” in the manuscript or saw the name Hyginus and assumed it was the same famous Hyginus we know primarily from Suetonius’s discussion in On Grammarians and Rhetoricians 20, which tells us that he was from Spain or Alexandria, in charge ...
Dec 24, 2016 · According to the second-century biographer Suetonius (De grammaticis, 20), this Hyginus was a freedman of the emperor Augustus and native of either Hispania or Alexandria. Instructed by the polymath Cornelius Alexander Polyhistor, Hyginus was appointed by Augustus as curator of the Palatine Library in Rome.
- John M. Mcmahon
- mcmahon@maple.lemoyne.edu
We find numerous references in Pliny, Gellius, Servius, Macrobius, and others, to various works by "Hyginus" or "Julius Hyginus," which are generally supposed to have been the productions of the Hyginus who was the freedman of Augustus.
GAIUS JULIUS HYGINUS, Latin author, a native of Spain (or Alexandria), was a pupil of the famous Cornelius Alexander Polyhistor and a freedman of Augustus, by whom he was made superintendent of the Palatine library (Suetonius, De Grammaticis, 20).
It appears to the writer of this article, that C. Julius Hyginus, the freedman of Augustus, gave origin to the title of most of the works passing under the name of Hyginus.
