Library of Alexandria: Centre of Learning in the Ancient World

Reference Type Book
Year of Publication
2000
Author
Editor: Roy Macleod
Language
English
Number of Pages
196 pp.
Publisher
I.B. Tauris
City
London, England
Region
Africa
Middle East
Library Type
Archives and Special Collections
National Libraries
State/Government Libraries
Chronological Period
Ancient Period (pre 500)
ISBN
9781860644283
Annotation

Contents: 

  • Introduction: Alexandria in history and myth / Roy MacLeod 

    pt. 1. Alexandria in history and myth. 

  • 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 

pt. 2. Scholarship in the Alexandrian manner. 

  • 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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