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Library of Alexandria: Centre of Learning in the Ancient World » (REV)

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Authors: Roy MacLeod
ISBN-13: 9781850435945, ISBN-10: 1850435944
Format: Paperback
Publisher: I. B.Tauris & Company, Limited
Date Published: September 2004
Edition: REV

Author Biography: Roy MacLeod

Roy MacLeod is Professor of History, University of Sydney.

Book Synopsis

The Library of Alexandria was one of the greatest cultural adornments of the late ancient world. It contained thousands of scrolls of Greek, Hebrew and Mesopotamian literature, as well as art and artifacts of ancient Egypt. This book brings together a distinguished array of scholars to bring this great institution--tragically destroyed--back to life.

	Notes on contributors
	Map of Alexandria
	Preface
	Introduction : Alexandria in history and myth	1
Pt. I	Alexandria in history and myth
1	Before Alexandria : libraries in the ancient Near East	19
2	Alexandria : the umbilicus of the ancient world	35
3	Cloistered bookworms in the chicken-coop of the muses : the ancient library of Alexandria	61
4	Aristotle's works : the possible origins of the Alexandria collection	79
Pt. II	Scholarship in the Alexandrian manner
5	Doctors in the library : the strange tale of Apollonius the bookworm and other stories	95
6	The theatre of Paphos and the theatre of Alexandria : some first thoughts	115
7	Scholars and students in the Roman East	127
8	The neoplatonists and the mystery schools of the Mediterranean	143
9	Alexandria and its medieval legacy : the book, the monk and the rose	163
	Bibliography	181
	Index	191