Strabo provides one of the few surviving ancient accounts that directly mentions the Museum of Alexandria, an institution closely tied to the Library. He highlights the Ptolemaic kings’ patronage of scholarship and the cultural prestige of Alexandria as a center of learning.

Plutarch’s broader body of work, particularly in other volumes (e.g., Life of Demetrius, Life of Caesar, and Life of Antony), touches on events and figures connected to Alexandria, including Cleopatra and Julius Caesar’s involvement in the Alexandrian War, during which part of the Library was reportedly burned.

The Attic Nights serves as an intellectual descendant of its ideals. It demonstrates how the Library’s influence endured long after its physical decline, shaping how later generations gathered, interpreted, and transmitted knowledge. Gellius’s work stands as a living echo of the Alexandrian commitment to the preservation and analysis of the ancient world’s intellectual achievements.

The Letter of Aristeas is one of the very few surviving ancient texts that directly describes the acquisition of a work for the Library of Alexandria, providing rare insight into its mission, prestige, and scholarly practices. Whether historical fact or literary fiction, the account reinforces the image of the Library as a cosmopolitan center of learning, striving to collect and preserve the wisdom of all nations.

Athenaeus’s Deipnosophistae stands as both a celebration of intellectual exchange and a critical source for preserving fragments of ancient Greek literature and culture. Its explicit reference to the Library of Alexandria’s efforts to acquire authoritative texts alongside its methodical, citation-rich style makes it especially valuable for understanding the Library’s influence on later scholarship. Through its encyclopedic scope and reverence for textual tradition, the work reflects the legacy of Alexandrian learning and offers a rare glimpse into the lasting impact of the Library on the intellectual world of late antiquity.

Epiphanius’s On Weights and Measures is one of the few late antique Christian texts that explicitly references the Library of Alexandria, linking it to the origin of the Septuagint translation of the Hebrew Bible. While the work itself is not focused on the Library, its retelling of the Library’s role in facilitating cross-cultural scriptural translation underscores how deeply the institution was embedded in the tradition of biblical scholarship. For Epiphanius, the Library serves as a historical anchor for the authority of the Greek Old Testament, reflecting its continued importance in discussions of textual transmission and religious knowledge, even centuries after its decline.