About 295 B.C., King Ptolemy I Soter enlisted the services of the orator Demetrios Phalereus, a former governor of Athens, and empowered him, according to Flavius Josephus, to collect, if he could, all the books in the inhabited world. To support his efforts, the king sent letters to all the sovereigns and governors on earth requesting that they furnish works by poets and prose-writers, rhetoricians and sophists, doctors and soothsayers, historians, and all the others too. Agents were sent out to scout the cities of Asia, North Africa, and Europe, and were authorized to spend whatever was necessary
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