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

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

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Main Author: MacLeod, Roy M. (Author)

Format: Book

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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Alexandrian Library.
Libraries > Egypt > Alexandria > History > To 400.
Alexandria (Egypt) > Antiquities.
Alexandria (Egypt) > Intellectual life.
Egypt > History > Greco-Roman period, 332 B.C.-640 A.D.

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Call Number: Z722.5 .L53 2000

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Table of Contents:
  • 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.