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The Library of Alexandria : centre of learning in the ancient world / edited by Roy MacLeod , with a foreward by Ismail Serageldin.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : New York : I.B. Tauris ; Palgrave Macmillan, 2005Description: xii, 196 pages : map ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1850435944
  • 9789774247101
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 027.032 22 L
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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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.

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