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Pinakes

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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Pinakes

Nodes36
Edges35
Triples46
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.055556
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Pinakes

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related to history · 19
Pinakes → Alexandria, Apollonius, BCE, BCE Aristophanes, Byzantium, Callimachus, Callimachus' Pinakes, Cyrene, During Zenodotus, Ephesus, Eratosthenes, His, In, Ptolemy, Rhodes, Soter, The, The Library, Zenodotus
related to Texts and translations · 11
Pinakes → Callimachus, Clarendon Press, Fragmenta, Library Quarterly, Oxford, Reference Works, Rudolf Pfeiffer, The, The Other Pinakes, The Pinakes, Witty
related to Legacy · 10
Pinakes → Anthony Panizzi, Arabic, Ibn, Index, Local, Mediterranean, Melvil Dewey, Nadim's Al-Fihrist, The Pinakes, Their
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Pinakes → Alexandria, Callimachus, Each, It, Library, The

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callimachus library work bce pinax first alexandria bibliographic works contents century librarian author composed catalog west upon tenure history description

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Pinakesrelated to DescriptionThe0.60section
Pinakesrelated to DescriptionLibrary0.60section
Pinakesrelated to DescriptionAlexandria0.60section
Pinakesrelated to DescriptionEach0.60section
Pinakesrelated to DescriptionIt0.60section
Pinakesrelated to DescriptionCallimachus0.60section
Pinakesrelated to historyThe Library0.60section
Pinakesrelated to historyAlexandria0.60section
Pinakesrelated to historyPtolemy0.60section
Pinakesrelated to historySoter0.60section
Pinakesrelated to historyBCE0.60section
Pinakesrelated to historyThe0.60section

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