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grbs-501	Finkelberg, Margalit	Regional Texts and the Circulation of Books: the Case of Homer	2006	18	.pdf	application/pdf	7006	242	53	We also saw that, as far as the Greek Old Testament and New Testament texts are concerned, the Constantinople authorities consistently pre- ferred Antioch (or, sometimes, Caesarea, see n.30) over Alex- andria, and that in terms of the regional circulation of books Constantinople and Antioch belonged to the same area. It is true that Aristophanes of Byzan- tium is said to have been imprisoned in Alexandria and thus prevented from accepting the invitation from Pergamum, but we saw that Aratus, for one, moved freely between Pella and Antioch, and the same was probably true of other scholars.35 The secessio doctorum, Ptolemy VIII’s exiling of Aristarchus and his pupils from Alexandria, seems to have especially con- tributed to the spread of Alexandrian scholarship over the Hel- lenistic world.36 In view of this, it is reasonable to suppose that Alexandrian texts of Homer, and especially the one produced by Aristarchus, continued to be consulted in Egypt and else- where during the Roman period as well: this was probably one of the ways by which Alexandrian readings entered the medie- val vulgate.37	cache/grbs-501.pdf	txt/grbs-501.txt