Concept

Pinakes

Overview

The Pinakes (Ancient Greek: Πίνακες 'tables', plural of πίναξ pinax) is a lost bibliographic work composed by Callimachus (310/305–240 BCE) that is popularly considered to be the first library catalog in the West; its contents were based upon the holdings of the Library of Alexandria during Callimachus's tenure there during the third century BCE.

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Philosophers who discussed Pinakes

• Heraclitus

Related ideas

• Library of Alexandria
• Mediterranean Sea
• Papyrus
• Aristotle
• Eratosthenes
• Suda
• Democritus
• Callimachus
• Library classification

Place in the tradition

Part of Alphabetical order.

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