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Gaius Julius Hyginus
Gaius Julius Hyginus, (c. 64 BC - 17 AD), was a Latin author, a native of Spain (or Alexandria), was a pupil of the famous Cornelius Alexander Polyhistor, and a freedman of Caesar Augustus, by whom he was made superintendent of the Palatine library (Suetonius, De Grammaticis, 20).
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