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This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Giuseppe Ucciardello and first published on 22/12/2005.

Here is the Italian version of this entry.

Grammarian:

Biography:

Naucrates was a Homeric¹ commentator and native of Erythrae, and he is cited only in Stephanus of Byzantium² (the later mention of him in Eustathius³ most probably derives from this work). The identification of Naucrates with the disciple of Isocrates⁴, a rh…