384–322 BCE · philosopher
Aristotle
Ἀριστοτέλης
Known · AttestedNot attested in Alexandria.
Founder of the Peripatetic school, whose way of collecting books and organising research is the Mouseion's intellectual model. Strabo says he taught the kings of Egypt how to arrange a library, which can only mean through his pupils. Athenaeus and Strabo tell contradictory stories of where his own books went.
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On the shelves
- Aristotle, On Philosophy · c. 350 BCE · Survives in fragments
- Aristotle, Theophrastus and the Peripatetics, The library of Aristotle and Theophrastus · collected c. 340–287 BCE · Survives in large part
- Aristotle and his school, Constitutions (158 states), including the Constitution of the Athenians · c. 330–322 BCE · Survives in fragments
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Sources (3)
- Strabo, Geography 13.1.54 (opens in a new tab)
- Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 1.3a–b
- R. S. Bagnall, "Alexandria: Library of Dreams", Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 146.4 (2002) 348–362 350–351