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Subject(s)

• Bibliography—Egypt—Alexandria—History [Browse]
• Cataloging—Egypt—Alexandria—History [Browse]
• Greek literature—Bibliography—Methodology [Browse]
• Libraries—Egypt—Alexandria—History—To 400 [Browse]
• Greece—Bibliography—Methodology [Browse]
• Alexandrian Library [Browse]
• Callimachus—Influence [Browse]
• Callimachus—Knowledge—Library science [Browse]

Series

Wisconsin studies in classics. [More in this series]

Notes

Translation of: Kallimachos und die Literaturverzeichnung bei den Griechen.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-262) and indexes.

Language note

English

Contents

• Intro
• Contents
• Translator's Preface
• Preface
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Forerunners: Aristotle, His Predecessors and Pupils
• 2.1 The Beginnings of Greek Philology and Literary History
• 2.2 The Works of Aristotle on Philology and Literary History
• 2.3 Aristotle's List of Performances of Plays in Athens (Didaskaliai)
• 2.4 The Doxographic Works of Aristotle and His Pupils
• 2.5 The Works of the Peripatetics on Philology, Literary History and Biography Until the Middle of the Third Century B.C
• 2.6 The Library of Aristotle
• 3. Preconditions: The Museion and Its Library
• 3.1 The Museion at Alexandria
• 3.2 The Library of the Museion According to the Ancient Authors
• 3.3 The Library According to the Report of Ioannes Tzetzes
• 4. Kallimachos and His Lists of Greek Authors and Their Works
• 4.1 The Life and Work of Kallimachos. His Work as a Librarian. His Scholarly Works (Except Lists of Authors)
• 4.2 His List of Attic Playwrights
• 4.3 His List of the Works of Demokritos
• 4.4 His Lists of Greek Authors and Their Works
• 5. Later Lists of Greek Writers and Their Works
• 5.1 The Pinakes of Kallimachos as Examples and Sources of Later Lists
• 5.2 The Inscription of a Library Catalog in Rhodos
• 5.3 Biographies of Authors with Lists of Their Works
• 5.4 The List of Aristotle's Writings by Andronikos of Rhodos
• 5.5 The Treatise of Dionysios of Halikarnassos on the Orator Deinarchos
• 5.6 The Work of Diogenes Laertios on the Lives and Opinions of Famous Philosophers
• 5.7 The List of Those Renowned in Branches of Learning by Hesychios of Miletos
• 6. The Development and Character of Kallimachos's Lists of Greek Authors and Their Works
• 7. The Achievements of Kallimachos in the Field of Bibliography
• Bibliography
• Name and Subject Index
• Title Index.

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ISBN

• 1-283-07752-3
• 9786613077523
• 0-299-13173-4

OCLC

• 706078541
• 927483518

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