Chorizontes ("separators") was the name given to the ancientAlexandrian critics who believed theIliad andOdyssey were by different poets. The best known of them were the grammariansXenon andHellanicus, but they are nonetheless extremely obscure figures about whom nothing else is known.Aristarchus of Samothrace was one of their opponents.^[1]

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•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Chorizontes".Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 270.

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