TY  - BOOK
AU  - MacLeod,Roy M.
TI  - The Library of Alexandria: centre of learning in the ancient world 
SN  - 1850435944
U1  - 027.032 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - London, New York, New York
PB  - I.B. Tauris, Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Alexandrian Library
KW  - Libraries
KW  - Egypt
KW  - Alexandria
KW  - History
KW  - To 400
KW  - Civilization, Classical
KW  - Alexandria (Egypt)
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Antiquities
KW  - Greco-Roman period, 332 B.C.-640 A.D
KW  - Greco Roman period, 332 B.C.-640 A.D
N1  - 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0621/2004304830-b.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0621/2004304830-d.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0621/2004304830-t.html
ER  -