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Also known as Agallis of Corcyra, Agalis, Agathis

Agallis (; called Anagallis by the Suda) of Corcyra was a female grammarian who wrote about Homer. She, or her father, was a student of Aristophanes of Byzantium.

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Agallis (; called Anagallis by the Suda) of Corcyra was a female grammarian who wrote about Homer. She, or her father, was a student of Aristophanes of Byzantium.

According to Athenaeus, she argued that ball games were invented by Nausicaa. Two scholiasts on the Iliad quote an argument that the two cities that Homer describes on the Shield of Achilles represented Athens and Eleusis; one attributes this to "Agallias of Corcyra", the other to "Dalis of Corcyra". Some scholars believe that Agallias was Agallis' father; others that it is an error and Agallis was the source of this argument.

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2nd-century BC Greek women2nd-century BC Greek writers2nd-century BC women writersAncient CorcyransAncient Greek grammariansAncient Greek women writersHomeric scholarsYear of birth unknownYear of death unknown