1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Chorizontes

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21148291911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 6 — Chorizontes

CHORIZONTES (“separators”), the name given to the Alexandrian critics who denied the single authorship of the Iliad and Odyssey, and held that the latter poem was the work of a later poet. The most important of them were the grammarians Xeno and Hellanicus; Aristarchus was their chief opponent (see Homer).