The Library of Alexandria : centre of learning in the ancient world /

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Main Author: MacLeod, Roy M. (Author)

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Language: English

Published: London ; New York : New York : I.B. Tauris ; In the U.S.A. and Canada distributed by St. Martin's Press, 2000.

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Call Number: Z722.5 .L53 2000

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245 1 4 |a The Library of Alexandria :  |b centre of learning in the ancient world /  |c edited by Roy MacLeod. 
264 1 |a London ;  |a New York :  |b I.B. Tauris ;  |a New York :  |b In the U.S.A. and Canada distributed by St. Martin's Press,  |c 2000. 
300 |a xii, 196 pages :  |b map ;  |c 23 cm. 
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500 |a Also library has 2002 edition 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-190) and index. 
505 0 |a Introduction : Alexandria in history and myth / Roy MacLeod -- Pt. 1. Alexandria in history and myth. Ch. 1. Before Alexandria : libraries in the Ancient Near East / D. T. Potts ; Ch. 2. Alexandria : the umbilicus of the ancient world / Wendy Brazil ; Ch. 3. Cloistered bookworms in the chicken-coop of the muses : the ancient library of Alexandria / Robert Barnes ; Ch. 4. Aristotle's works : the possible origins of the Alexandria colorlection / R. G. Tanner -- Pt. 2. Scholarship in the Alexandrian manner. Ch. 5. Doctors in the library : the strange tale of Apollonius the bookworm and other stories / John Vallance ; Ch. 6. The theatre of Paphos and the theatre of Alexandria : some first thoughts / J. R. Green ; Ch. 7. Scholars and students in the Roman East / Samuel N. C. Lieu ; Ch. 8. The Neoplatonists and the mystery schools of the Mediterranean / Patricia Cannon Johnson ; Ch. 9. Alexandria and its Medieval legacy : the book, the monk and the rose / J. O. Ward. 
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650 0 |a Libraries  |z Egypt  |z Alexandria  |x History  |y To 400. 
651 0 |a Alexandria (Egypt)  |x Antiquities. 
651 0 |a Alexandria (Egypt)  |x Intellectual life. 
651 0 |a Egypt  |x History  |y Greco-Roman period, 332 B.C.-640 A.D. 
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