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Μουσεῖον

Known · Attestedin Alexandria?Conjectured · Our reconstructionour placement

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I · The entry, in his form

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Conjectured · Our reconstructionour placement

Callimachus of Cyrene

c. 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.

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Μουσεῖον

Opening words not preserved.

Length: not counted

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II · Does it survive? Where to read it

Lost

Title only (Suda κ 227). Nothing of its content survives.

Was it in Alexandria?

Known · Attested

Written in Alexandria.

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IV · Sources and the living entry

Ancient references
  • Suda κ 227
Modern scholarship
  • R. Pfeiffer (ed.), Callimachus, vol. I: Fragmenta (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1949)

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