Ptolemy Philadelphos had Babylonian works translated into Greek (1)

Text
Synkellos, Chronographia 327:
Ptolemy Philadelphus was apportioned rule of Egypt … A man of exhaustive learning and enormous industry, he collected the books of all the Greeks, Chaldeans, Egyptians, and Romans, rendered those written in a foreign language into Greek, and deposited 100,000 books throughout Alexandria in the libraries he had established.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Synkellos, Chronographia 327

Bibliography

Amar Annus

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