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On the Pinakes of Callimachus

Πρὸς τοὺς Καλλιμάχου πίνακας

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I · The entry, in his form

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Conjectured · Our reconstructionour placement

Aristophanes of Byzantium

c. 257–180 BCE. Took charge of the Library at sixty-two. He edited Homer, Hesiod, the lyric poets and the dramatists, arranged Pindar and Plato, wrote supplements to Callimachus's Pinakes and a great Lexeis, and is credited with the Greek accent marks.

On the Pinakes of Callimachus

Πρὸς τοὺς Καλλιμάχου πίνακας

Opening words not preserved.

Length: not counted

Above, his entry form, filled from what we know. Below, ours.

II · Does it survive? Where to read it

Survives in fragments

Lost; cited by Athenaeus (8.336d-e; 9.408f).

Was it in Alexandria?

Known · Attested

Written in Alexandria.

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IV · Sources and the living entry

Ancient references
  • Athenaeus 8.336d-e; 9.408f
Modern scholarship (2)
  • W. J. Slater (ed.), Aristophanis Byzantii Fragmenta (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1986).
  • R. Pfeiffer, History of Classical Scholarship from the Beginnings to the End of the Hellenistic Age (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968)

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