The Pinakes (Ancient Greek: Πίνακες 'tables', plural of πίναξpinax) 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.[1]
librarian and updated the Pinakes, although it is also possible that his work was not a supplement of Callimachus' Pinakes themselves, but an independent...
Persephone. Many of these pinakes are now on display in the National Museum of Magna Græcia in Reggio Calabria. Locrian pinakes represent one of the most...
pinakes have usually lost all but faint traces of their painted images – the Pitsa panels being the outstanding exception. Moulded terracotta pinakes...
Philadelphus and was employed at the Library of Alexandria where he compiled the Pinakes, a comprehensive catalogue of all Greek literature. He is believed to have...
are ascribed to him, mostly amphorae, dinoi, kraters, as well as three pinakes. Apart from his work for the domestic market, he was also one of the masters...
Persephone. Many of these pinakes are now on display in the National Museum of Magna Græcia in Reggio Calabria. Locrian pinakes represent one of the most...
poet Callimachus compiled the Pinakes, a 120-book catalogue of various authors and all their known works. The Pinakes has not survived, but enough references...
the representation of the goddess in various local artistic documents (pinakes and some statuettes of the Grotta Caruso sanctuary). The Thesmophoria,...
Heraclitus. The philosopher Paul Schuster has argued the division came from the Pinakes. Scholar Martin Litchfield West claims that while the existing fragments...
ordines modeled after the ones created by the Greeks, which were called pinakes. The Greek lists were considered classical, or recepti scriptores ("select...
massive catalog of the holdings of the library of Alexandria, the famous Pinakes. Callimachus was extremely influential in his time and also for the development...
Callimachus, a poet and the first to publish a comprehensive book catalogue (the Pinakes). Zenodotos, the first head librarian of the Library of Alexandria, who...
subject categories. The earliest known library classification scheme is the Pinakes by Callimachus, a scholar at the Library of Alexandria during the third...
Latin Benedictus). According to Diogenes Laërtius, crediting Callimachus' Pinakes, Eudoxus studied mathematics with Archytas (of Tarentum, Magna Graecia)...
former pupil Apollonius. He also compiled a prose treatise entitled the Pinakes, in which he catalogued all the major works held in the Library of Alexandria...
archive of the temple of Zeus at Locri Epizefiri The vast collection of pinakes, terracotta ex votos/ with the rape of Persephone from Locri Epizefiri...
be the first subject catalog of the library holdings, called the pinakes. The pinakes contained 120 scrolls arranged into ten subject classes; each class...
thought to have created the world's first library catalog, known as the Pinakes, with scrolls shelved in alphabetical order of the first letter of authors'...
or pinakes, of Egyptian deities, such as Isis, and symbols of the crocodile god Sobek, Hathor, or Apis, with leaders worshipping them. The pinakes on...
Very few forms of Hellenistic Greek painting survive except for wooden pinakes panels and those painted on stone. The most famously known stone paintings...
platform often used to bring dead characters into view for the audience pinakes, pictures hung to create scenery thyromata, more complex pictures built...
transcribe works in other libraries within the kingdom. c. Third century BCE, Pinakes by Callimachus at the Library of Alexandria was arguably the first library...
whose facade was punctured with several thyromata or apertures where the pinakes or painted scenery would have been displayed. The date of this change devolves...
sets used in life. Bucchero "chalice", c. 550 BC A few large terracotta pinakes or plaques, much larger than are typical in Greek art, have been found...
Cyrene recorded bibliographic records on 120 scrolls using a system called pinakes. Early American library catalogs in the colonial period were typically...
collected, fixed into plaster and built into so-called "walls" or "panels" (pinakes). He established additional collections of antiquities in the major monuments...
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