Hellani'cus
2. A Greek grammarian, a disciple of Agathocles, and apparently a contemporary of the critic Aristarchus.
He wrote on the Homeric poems, and belonged to that class of critics who are termed the Chorizontes. (Eustath.
ad Hom. pp. 1035, 1173; Schol. Venet.
ad Il. 5.269; Schol.
ad Sophocl. Philoct. 201; Schol. Eurip. Vat.
in Troad. 823,
in Orest. 1347; comp. Grauert in the
Rhein. Museum, vol. i. p. 204, &c.; Welcker,
der Epische Cyclus, p. 251.)