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Ptolemaic Kingdom

Literary golden period

1st Millenium BC
Alexandria, Egypt

During Alexandria's brief literary golden period, c. 280–240 BC, the Library subsidized three poets—Callimachus, Apollonius of Rhodes, and Theocritus—whose work now represents the best of Hellenistic literature.


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