Library of Alexandria - The only known head librarian from the Roman Period

Time: 050s

Place: Alexandria, Egypt

Details: The same was evidently the case even for the position of head librarian; the only known head librarian from the Roman Period was a man named Tiberius Claudius Balbilus, who lived in the middle of the first century AD and was a politician, administrator, and military officer with no record of substantial scholarly achievements.

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