CHAEREMON, of Alexandria (1st century A.D.) Stoic phil osopher and grammarian. He was superintendent of part of the Alexandrian library and belonged to the higher ranks of the priesthood. In A.D. 49 he was summoned to Rome, with Alex ander of Aegae, to become tutor to the youthful Nero. He was the author of a History of Egypt; of works on Comets, Egyptian Astrology, and Hieroglyphics; and of a treatise on Expletive Conjunctions. Chaeremon was the chief of the party which ex plained the Egyptian religious system as an allegory of the worship of nature. He can hardly be identical with the Chaeremon who accompanied (c. 26 B.C.; Strabo xvii. p. 8o6) Aelius Gallus, praefect of Egypt, on a journey into the interior.
Fragments in C. Muller, Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum, iii.