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Library of Alexandria

The only known head librarian from the Roman Period

050s
Alexandria, Egypt

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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