Agallis

{{short description|2nd-century BC Ancient Greek female writer}}

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Agallis ({{langx|grc|Ἀγαλλίς}}; called Anagallis {{langx|grc|Ἀναγαλλίς}} by the Suda) of Corcyra was a female grammarian who wrote about Homer. She, or her father, was a student of Aristophanes of Byzantium.{{cite book | last =Pomeroy | first =Sarah B. | author-link =Sarah B. Pomeroy | title =Women in Hellenistic Egypt: From Alexander to Cleopatra | publisher =Wayne State University Press | year =1990 | location =Detroit | page =61 | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=lcH6oWafBq8C&q=agallis&pg=PA61 | isbn = 0-8143-2230-1}}

According to Athenaeus, she argued that ball games were invented by Nausicaa.{{cite journal|last=Cullhed|first=Eric|title=Homer on the Origins of Athens: Agallis of Corcyra and the Shield of Achilles|journal=Symbolae Osloenses|year=2013|volume=87|page=64|doi=10.1080/00397679.2013.805907 }} 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.{{cite journal|last=Cullhed|first=Eric|title=Homer on the Origins of Athens: Agallis of Corcyra and the Shield of Achilles|journal=Symbolae Osloenses|year=2013|volume=87|pages=64–65|doi=10.1080/00397679.2013.805907 }}

Agallis is sometimes incorrectly described as a philosopher. This derives from the misconception that Ptolemy's Life of Aristotle was dedicated to her; it is now known to have been dedicated to a man named Gallus.