Zenodotus

Person

3rd century BC Greek grammarian, literary critic and scholar; first librarian of the Library of Alexandria (c. 280 BCE); pioneer of textual criticism and editorial philology; the Zenodo research repository is named after him

Zenodotus was a Greek grammarian, literary critic, Homeric scholar, and the first librarian of the Library of Alexandria. A native of Ephesus and a pupil of Philitas of Cos, he lived during the reigns of the first two Ptolemies, and was at the height of his reputation about 280 BC.

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