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Collection of Wonders in All the Earth, Arranged by Place
Θαυμάτων τῶν εἰς ἅπασαν τὴν γῆν κατὰ τόπους ὄντων συναγωγή
I · The entry, in his form
In the table of Natural science: “paradoxography”
Conjectured · Our reconstructionour placementc. 305–240 BCE. The great poet of the Ptolemaic court (Aitia, Hymns, Hecale, Iambi, epigrams) and the compiler of the Pinakes, a 120-book bio-bibliography of Greek literature. The papyrus list of heads does not name him, and he was probably never head; the Latin Scholium Plautinum calls him royal librarian.
Collection of Wonders in All the Earth, Arranged by Place
Θαυμάτων τῶν εἰς ἅπασαν τὴν γῆν κατὰ τόπους ὄντων συναγωγή
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
Excerpted by Antigonus of Carystus in his Collection of Marvellous Stories.
Was it in Alexandria?
Known · AttestedWritten in Alexandria.
In the cupboard: written at Alexandria by a scholar or court writer a source places there.
Read it today
Fragments in Pfeiffer, Callimachus vol. 1 (the paradoxographical fragments), excerpted by Antigonus of Carystus.
III · In the show
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IV · Sources and the living entry
Ancient references (2)
- Antigonus of Carystus, Historiarum mirabilium collectio 129-173
- Suda κ 227
Modern scholarship
- R. Pfeiffer, History of Classical Scholarship from the Beginnings to the End of the Hellenistic Age (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968)
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