Kallimachos: The Alexandrian Library and the Origins of BibliographyUniv of Wisconsin Press, 15. dets 1991 - 282 pages 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. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Forerunners Aristotle His Predecessors and Pupils | 14 |
22 The Works of Aristotle on Philology and Literary History | 20 |
23 Aristotles List of Performances of Plays in Athens Didaskaliai | 24 |
24 The Doxographic Works of Aristotle and His Pupils | 43 |
25 The Works of the Peripatetics on Philology Literary History and Biography until the Middle of the Third Century B C | 47 |
26 The Library of Aristotle | 52 |
Preconditions The Museion and Its Library | 95 |
Later Lists of Greek Writers and Their Works | 182 |
52 The Inscription of a Library Catalog in Rhodos | 185 |
53 Biographies of Authors with Lists of Their Works | 188 |
54 The List of Aristotles Writings by Andronikos of Rhodos | 194 |
55 The Treatise of Dionysios of Halikamassos on the Orator Deinarchos | 196 |
56 The Work of Diogenes Laertios on the Lives and Opinions of Famous Philosophers | 199 |
57 The List of Those Renowned in Branches of Learning by Hesychios of Miletos | 202 |
The Development and Character of Kallimachoss Lists of Greek Authors and Their Works | 226 |
32 The Library of the Museion According to the Ancient Authors | 99 |
33 The Library According to the Report of Ioannes Tzetzes | 104 |
Kallimachos and His Lists of Greek Authors and Their Works | 124 |
42 His List of Attic Playwrights | 137 |
43 His List of the Works of Demokritos | 143 |
44 His Lists of Greek Authors and Their Works | 150 |
The Achievements of Kallimachos in the Field of Bibliography | 244 |
Bibliography | 248 |
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