Complete Works of Callimachus by Callimachus

A typical entry started with a title and also provided the author's name, birthplace, father's name, any teachers trained under, and educational background. The bins gave bibliographical information for every roll. Pinakes was named after these tablets and are a set of index lists. Each bin carried a label with painted tablets hung above the stored papyri. The collection at the Library of Alexandria contained nearly 500,000 papyrus scrolls, which were grouped together by subject matter and stored in bins. In 195 BCE Aristophanes of Byzantium, Eratosthenes' successor, was the librarian and updated the Pinakes, although it is also possible that his work was not a supplement of Callimachus' Pinakes themselves, but an independent polemic against, or commentary upon, their contents. Eratosthenes of Cyrene succeeded Apollonius in 235 BCE and compiled his tetagmenos epi teis megaleis bibliothekeis, the 'scheme of the great bookshelves'. Īpollonius of Rhodes was the successor to Zenodotus. His most famous one listed authors and their works thus he became the first known bibliographer and the scholar who organized the library by authors and subjects about 245 BCE. During Zenodotus' tenure, Callimachus, who was never the head librarian, compiled many catalogues/lists, each called Pinakes. The first recorded librarian was Zenodotus of Ephesus. The Library of Alexandria had been founded by Ptolemy I Soter about 306 BCE. The Pinakes ( Ancient Greek: Πίνακες 'tables', plural of πίναξ) is a lost bibliographic work composed by Callimachus (310/305–240 BCE) that is popularly considered to be the first library catalog in the West its contents were based upon the holdings of the Library of Alexandria during Callimachus' tenure there during the third century BCE. Imaginary depiction of the Library of Alexandria

Complete Works of Callimachus by Callimachus