The first librarian is Zenodotus of Ephesus. He was a greek grammarian and first superintendent (from c.284 EC) of the library Alexandria, noted for editions of greeks poets and especially for producing the first critical edition of homer. While serving as superintendent of the library in Alexandria, he directed the work of editing the greek epic and lyric poets. His colleagues in the librarianship were Alexander of Aetolia and Lycophron of Chalcis, to whom were allotted the tragic and comic writers. Homer and other epic poets were assigned to Herodotus. He has been reapproaching with aritbritariness and insufficient knowledge of greek. Having collated the different manuscripts in the library, he expunged or obelized doubtful verses, transposed lines or alerted lines, and introduced new readings. His Homeric lines of unusual words probably formed the source of explanations of homer’s attribute by the grammarians to Zenodotus. He also lectured on, Hesiod, Anacreon, and Pindar. He is further called an epic poet by suites, and three epigrams in the greek anthology are assigned to him.
“It’s interesting how Zenodotus produced the first critical edition of homer,” Hannah Rathbun (12) said.
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