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Table and Register of Dramatic Poets, in Chronological Order from the Beginning

Πίναξ καὶ ἀναγραφὴ τῶν κατὰ χρόνους καὶ ἀπ᾽ ἀρχῆς γενομένων διδασκάλων

Known · Attestedin Alexandria?Known · AttestedCallimachus's own placement

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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.

Table and Register of Dramatic Poets, in Chronological Order from the Beginning

Πίναξ καὶ ἀναγραφὴ τῶν κατὰ χρόνους καὶ ἀπ᾽ ἀρχῆς γενομένων διδασκάλων

Opening words not preserved.

Length: not counted

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II · Does it survive? Where to read it

Lost

Title only, from the Suda list of Callimachus's works.

Was it in Alexandria?

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Written in Alexandria.

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Ancient references
  • Suda κ 227
Modern scholarship (2)
  • R. Pfeiffer, History of Classical Scholarship from the Beginnings to the End of the Hellenistic Age (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968)
  • R. Blum, Kallimachos: The Alexandrian Library and the Origins of Bibliography, trans. H. H. Wellisch (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991; German 1977)

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