ABSTRACT
During its first and probably its greatest years the Museum was the focus for the researches of a band of scholars, writers and editors of outstanding ability, whose work is of profound importance in the tradition of Greek learning and letters. Their teaching and writing and editorial work was indeed the channel into which the body of Greek classical literature was organized and through which it passed in due time to Constantinople and eventually to the Western World. Many of these scholars were connected officially with the Library, and none of them has secured a firmer niche in literary history than Callimachus. The classical scholar has, of course his own reasons for his interest in Callimachus. The interest of the librarian is due to the fact that Callimachus occupied a central position in the history of the Alexandrian libraries, through whose agency the literary heritage of Greece was handed down to us.
