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Kallimachos : The Alexandrian Library and the Origins of Bibliography.

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Author / Creator: Blum, Rudolf.
Other Authors / Creators:Wellisch, Hans H.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 1991.
Series:Wisconsin Studies in Classics Ser.
Subjects:
Callimachus > Influence.
Callimachus > Knowledge > Library science.
Alexandrian Library.
Bibliography > Egypt > Alexandria > History.
Cataloging > Egypt > Alexandria > History.
Greek literature > Bibliography > Methodology.
Libraries > Egypt > Alexandria > History > To 400.
Electronic books.
Local Note:Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Translator's Preface
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Forerunners: Aristotle, His Predecessors and Pupils
  • 2.1 The Beginnings of Greek Philology and Literary History
  • 2.2 The Works of Aristotle on Philology and Literary History
  • 2.3 Aristotle's List of Performances of Plays in Athens (Didaskaliai)
  • 2.4 The Doxographic Works of Aristotle and His Pupils
  • 2.5 The Works of the Peripatetics on Philology, Literary History and Biography Until the Middle of the Third Century B.C
  • 2.6 The Library of Aristotle
  • 3. Preconditions: The Museion and Its Library
  • 3.1 The Museion at Alexandria
  • 3.2 The Library of the Museion According to the Ancient Authors
  • 3.3 The Library According to the Report of Ioannes Tzetzes
  • 4. Kallimachos and His Lists of Greek Authors and Their Works
  • 4.1 The Life and Work of Kallimachos. His Work as a Librarian. His Scholarly Works (Except Lists of Authors)
  • 4.2 His List of Attic Playwrights
  • 4.3 His List of the Works of Demokritos
  • 4.4 His Lists of Greek Authors and Their Works
  • 5. Later Lists of Greek Writers and Their Works
  • 5.1 The Pinakes of Kallimachos as Examples and Sources of Later Lists
  • 5.2 The Inscription of a Library Catalog in Rhodos
  • 5.3 Biographies of Authors with Lists of Their Works
  • 5.4 The List of Aristotle's Writings by Andronikos of Rhodos
  • 5.5 The Treatise of Dionysios of Halikarnassos on the Orator Deinarchos
  • 5.6 The Work of Diogenes Laertios on the Lives and Opinions of Famous Philosophers
  • 5.7 The List of Those Renowned in Branches of Learning by Hesychios of Miletos
  • 6. The Development and Character of Kallimachos's Lists of Greek Authors and Their Works
  • 7. The Achievements of Kallimachos in the Field of Bibliography
  • Bibliography
  • Name and Subject Index
  • Title Index.

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