place_of_birth pamphilus of alexandria
___MASK75___ ( or ; Arabic : '; '; "") is the second largest city and a major economic centre in Egypt , extending about along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea in the north central part of the country . Its low elevation on the Nile delta makes it highly vulnerable to rising sea levels . ___MASK75___ is Egypt ' s largest seaport , serving approximately 80 % of Egypt ' s imports and exports . It is an important industrial center because of its natural gas and oil pipelines from Suez . ___MASK75___ is also an important tourist destination . Aristarchus ___MASK42___ Samothrace ( c . 220  c . 143 BC ) was a grammarian noted as the most influential ___MASK42___ all scholars ___MASK42___ Homeric poetry . He was the librarian ___MASK42___ the library ___MASK42___ ___MASK75___ and seems to have succeeded his teacher Aristophanes ___MASK42___ Byzantium in that role . ___MASK62___ (, " Hómros ") is the name ascribed by the Ancient Greeks to the semi - legendary author of the two epic poems , the " Iliad " and the " Odyssey ", the central works of Greek literature . Many accounts of ___MASK62___ ' s life circulated in classical antiquity , the most widespread being that he was a blind bard from ___MASK96___ , a region of central coastal Anatolia in present - day Turkey . The modern scholarly consensus is that these traditions do not have any historical value . Pamphilus ( Greek :  ; fl . 1st century AD ) was a Greek grammarian , ___MASK42___ the school ___MASK42___ Aristarchus ___MASK42___ Samothrace . He was the author ___MASK42___ a comprehensive lexicon , in 95 books , ___MASK42___ foreign or obscure words , the idea ___MASK42___ which was credited to another grammarian , Zopyrion , himself the compiler ___MASK42___ the first four books . The work itself is lost , but an epitome by Diogenianus ( 2nd century ) formed the basis ___MASK42___ the lexicon ___MASK42___ Hesychius . A similar compilation , called `` meadow '' ( cf . the Praia ___MASK42___ Suetonius ) from its varied contents , dealing chiefly with mythological marvels , was probably a supplement to the lexicon , although some scholars identify them . Pamphilus was one ___MASK42___ the chief authorities used by Athenaeus in the Deipnosophists . The Suda assigns to another Pamphilus , simply described as `` a philosopher , '' a number ___MASK42___ works , some ___MASK42___ which were probably by Pamphilus the grammarian . See G Thilo in Ersch and Gruber ' s Allgemeine Encyclopedic , M Schmidt , appendix to his edition ___MASK42___ Hesychius , ( 1862 ) vol . iv . ; A Westermann in Pauly ' s Realencyclopädie ( 1848 ) .