Communication
Demetrios Phalereus persuades Ptolemy I (Ptolemaios Soter) to collect copies of all known books at Alexandria in an institution known as the Library. The project is furthered by nearly all of the remaining Ptolemaic rulers of Egypt. At its height, the Library probably contains almost 750,000 books on papyrus scrolls -- although some may have been duplicates since it is likely that not that many works were written in Antiquity. See also 48 bce Communication.




