Pinakes
work by Callimachus
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discussed in biography
- In Callimachus
…the most famous was the Pinakes (“Tables of Those Who Have Distinguished Themselves in Every Form of Culture and of What They Wrote”) in 120 books. This work consisted of an elaborate critical and biographical catalog of the authors of the works held in the Library of Alexandria.
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importance to Greek scholarship
- In classical scholarship: Library of Alexandria
240 bc) compiled the Pinakes (“Tablets”), a vast catalogue raisonné of the chief authors, with biographical and bibliographical information. Callimachus is said to have written a book opposing the chief Peripatetic critic of the time, Praxiphanes, and is widely held to have criticized Peripatetic literary theory; but the scantiness…
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