Zenodotus

329 BC–259 BC

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

writer · poet · librarian

Born in Ephesus

Contemporaries

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• Archimedes (286 BC–211 BC)
• Euclid (333 BC–284 BC)
• Ashoka (303 BC–231 BC)
• Epicurus (341 BC–269 BC)
• Chanakya Kautilya (374 BC–282 BC)
• Eratosthenes (275 BC–193 BC)
• Mencius (371 BC–288 BC)
• Menander (340 BC–290 BC)

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