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Historical figure

Zenodotus of Ephesus

325 BC – 260 BC

First librarian of the Library of Alexandria Hellenistic Greece Greece

A Greek philologist believed to have headed the Library of Alexandria in the early 3rd century BC. He is known for his efforts to edit and arrange the manuscripts of Homer and to mark lines considered interpolations.

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