The Library of Alexandria : centre of learning in the ancient world /
The Library of Alexandria : centre of learning in the ancient world /
edited by Roy MacLeod , with a foreward by Ismail Serageldin.
- xii, 196 pages : map ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-190) and index.
Introduction : Alexandria in history and myth / Roy MacLeod -- Before Alexandria : libraries in the Ancient Near East / D.T. Potts -- Alexandria : the umbilicus of the ancient world / Wendy Brazil -- Cloistered bookworms in the chicken-coop of the muses : the ancient library of Alexandria / Robert Barnes -- Aristotle's works : the possible origins of the Alexandria collection / R.G. Tanner -- Doctors in the library : the strange tale of Apollonius the bookworm and other stories / John Vallance -- The theatre of Paphos and the theatre of Alexandria : some first thoughts / J.R. Green -- Scholars and students in the Roman East / Samuel N.C. Lieu -- The Neoplatonists and the mystery schools of the Mediterranean / Patricia Cannon Johnson -- Alexandria and its Medieval legacy : the book, the monk and the rose / J.O. Ward.
1850435944 9789774247101
Alexandrian Library.
Libraries--History--Egypt--Alexandria--To 400.
Civilization, Classical.
Alexandria (Egypt)--Intellectual life.
Alexandria (Egypt)--Antiquities.
Egypt--History--Greco-Roman period, 332 B.C.-640 A.D.
Egypt--History--Greco Roman period, 332 B.C.-640 A.D.
027.032 / L
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-190) and index.
Introduction : Alexandria in history and myth / Roy MacLeod -- Before Alexandria : libraries in the Ancient Near East / D.T. Potts -- Alexandria : the umbilicus of the ancient world / Wendy Brazil -- Cloistered bookworms in the chicken-coop of the muses : the ancient library of Alexandria / Robert Barnes -- Aristotle's works : the possible origins of the Alexandria collection / R.G. Tanner -- Doctors in the library : the strange tale of Apollonius the bookworm and other stories / John Vallance -- The theatre of Paphos and the theatre of Alexandria : some first thoughts / J.R. Green -- Scholars and students in the Roman East / Samuel N.C. Lieu -- The Neoplatonists and the mystery schools of the Mediterranean / Patricia Cannon Johnson -- Alexandria and its Medieval legacy : the book, the monk and the rose / J.O. Ward.
1850435944 9789774247101
Alexandrian Library.
Libraries--History--Egypt--Alexandria--To 400.
Civilization, Classical.
Alexandria (Egypt)--Intellectual life.
Alexandria (Egypt)--Antiquities.
Egypt--History--Greco-Roman period, 332 B.C.-640 A.D.
Egypt--History--Greco Roman period, 332 B.C.-640 A.D.
027.032 / L