---
name: Hesychius the Alexandrian
name_greek: Ἡσύχιος ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς
eul_aid: taq
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/authors/hesychius-the-alexandrian-taq"
period: Late Antique
dialect: Koine
works_count: 3
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# Hesychius the Alexandrian

*Ἡσύχιος ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς*

**eul_aid:** `taq` · [HTML page](https://eulogikon.org/authors/hesychius-the-alexandrian-taq)

Hesychius the Alexandrian was a 5th-6th century CE grammarian. His monumental Greek lexicon survives. Free to read and download from the Greek library archive.

## Works

- [Letter to Eulogius](https://eulogikon.org/works/hesychius-alexandria-letter-eulogius-taq-aa) — *Ἐπιστολὴ πρὸς Εὐλόγιον* · `taq-aa`
- [Lexicon Α–Ο](https://eulogikon.org/works/hesychius-alexandria-lexicon-taq-ab) — *Λεξικὸν (Α—Ο)* · `taq-ab`
- [Lexicon Π–Ω](https://eulogikon.org/works/hesychius-alexandria-lexicon-taq-ac) — *Λεξικὸν (Π—Ω)* · `taq-ac`

## License and provenance

Eulogikon publishes public-domain Greek texts in cleaned, structured, readable form and makes no copyright claim over that preparation (Public Domain Mark 1.0, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/). Author records and the underlying corpus are at https://eulogikon.org/.