A landmark study of the ancient Alexandrian Library and its celebrated curator, Kallimachos of Kyrene, inventor of two essential scholarly tools: the library catalog and the biobibliographical reference work. Translator(s): Wellisch, Hans H. Series: Wisconsin Studies in Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; GLK; GLM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 17. Weight in Grams: 412. . 2011. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Kallimachos
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication Date: 2011
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0299131742
ISBN 13: 9780299131746
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New

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The famous library of Alexandria, founded around 295 BCE by Ptolemaios I, housed the greatest collection of texts in the ancient world and was a fertile site of Hellenistic scholarship. Rudolf Blum’s landmark study, originally published in German in 1977, argues that Kallimachos of Kyrene was not only the second director of the Alexandrian library but also the inventor of two essential scholarly tools still in use to this day: the library catalog and the “biobibliographical” reference work. Kallimachos expanded the library’s inventory lists into volumes called the Pinakes, which extensively described and categorized each work and became in effect a Greek national bibliography and the source and paradigm for most later bibliographic lists of Greek literature. Though the Pinakes have not survived, Blum attempts a detailed reconstruction of Kallimachos’s inventories and catalogs based on a careful analysis of surviving sources, which are presented here in full translation.

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Rudolf Blum (1909–98) was library director of the Deutsche Bibliothek in Frankfurt, Germany.

Hans H. Wellisch (1920–2004) was professor emeritus of the College of Library and Information Services at the University of Maryland, College Park.

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