Gaius Julius Hyginus
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| Gender | Male |
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| Born | Alexandria |
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| Died | Rome |
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| 17 AD | |
| Rome | |
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| Books | Fabulae |
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| ID | 1732633 |
Gaius Julius Hyginus Life story
Gaius Julius Hyginus was a Latin author, a pupil of the scholar Alexander Polyhistor, and a freedman of Caesar Augustus. He was elected superintendent of the Palatine library by Augustus according to Suetonius' De Grammaticis, 20. It is not clear whether Hyginus was a native of the Iberian Peninsula or of Alexandria.
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