Hesychius of Alexandria was a Greek grammarian and lexicographer who lived during the 5th or 6th century CE. No reliable biographical details about his personal life or education survive.
His sole surviving work is the Lexicon, a comprehensive Greek dictionary. It is preserved only in a single, damaged 15th-century manuscript.
Hesychius’s lexicon is a main source for ancient Greek language and literature. This alphabetical dictionary preserves countless rare, dialectal, and obscure terms, drawing extensively on now-lost lexicographical works and scholarly commentaries. It serves as an invaluable repository for fragments of lost Greek texts and is particularly important for the study of Homeric glosses, Attic comedy, and Greek dialects.
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