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The Library of Alexandria
Author | : Roy MacLeod |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2005-01-14 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780857714381 |
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The Library of Alexandria was one of the greatest cultural adornments of the late ancient world, containing thousands of scrolls of Greek, Hebrew and Mesopotamian literature and art and artefacts of ancient Egypt. This book demonstrates that Alexandria became - through the contemporary reputation of its library - a point of confluence for Greek, Roman, Jewish and Syrian culture that drew scholars and statesmen from throughout the ancient world. It also explores the histories of Alexander the Great and of Alexandria itself, the greatest city of the ancient world. This new paperback edition offers general readers an accessible introduction to the history of this magnificent yet still mysterious institution from the time of its foundation up to its tragic destruction.
What Happened to the Ancient Library of Alexandria
Author | : Mostafa el- Abbadi,Omnia Mounir Fathallah |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004165458 |
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This book aims at presenting a new discussion of primary sources by renowned scholars of the long disputed question of "What Happened to the Ancient Library of Alexandria"? The treatment includes a brilliant presentation of cultural Alexandrian life in late antiquity.
The Vanished Library
Author | : Luciano Canfora |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1990-08-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520072553 |
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Recreates the world of ancient Egypt, describes how the Library of Alexandria was created, and speculates on its destruction.
The Life and Fate of the Ancient Library of Alexandria
Author | : Mostafa El-Abbadi |
Publsiher | : UNESCO |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : UOM:39015020693092 |
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A thoroughly researched study on the history of both the Museum and the Alexandria Library, showing the important role they played in the transmission of Greco-roman civilization. The tragic fate of both institutions have long been of great fascination for both writers and readers.
Ancient Libraries
Author | : Jason König,Katerina Oikonomopoulou,Greg Woolf |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 501 |
Release | : 2013-04-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107244580 |
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The circulation of books was the motor of classical civilization. However, books were both expensive and rare, and so libraries - private and public, royal and civic - played key roles in articulating intellectual life. This collection, written by an international team of scholars, presents a fundamental reassessment of how ancient libraries came into being, how they were organized and how they were used. Drawing on papyrology and archaeology, and on accounts written by those who read and wrote in them, it presents new research on reading cultures, on book collecting and on the origins of monumental library buildings. Many of the traditional stories told about ancient libraries are challenged. Few were really enormous, none were designed as research centres, and occasional conflagrations do not explain the loss of most ancient texts. But the central place of libraries in Greco-Roman culture emerges more clearly than ever.
The Library of Alexandria
Author | : Kelly Trumble |
Publsiher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 85 |
Release | : 2003-11-17 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780547532899 |
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"a stirring account...performs a worthy task in bringing a fabled institution of learning up from the footnotes." KIRKUS REVIEWS Kirkus Reviews "It's hard to find an untouched topic in children's nonfiction, but this comes close...a useful support for curriculum" BOOKLIST Booklist, ALA "a dramatic tableau...antiquity hounds will find a bundle of information, acessibly packaged." THE BULLETIN OF THE CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S BOOKS The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books "well-organized and thorough resource...a unique and timely celebration of age-old passion for and preservation of ideas." SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL School Library Journal —
Kallimachos
Author | : Rudolf Blum |
Publsiher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2011-06-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780299131739 |
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The famous library of Alexandria, founded around 295 BCE by Ptolemaios I, housed the greatest collection of texts in the ancient world and was a fertile site of Hellenistic scholarship. Rudolf Blum’s landmark study, originally published in German in 1977, argues that Kallimachos of Kyrene was not only the second director of the Alexandrian library but also the inventor of two essential scholarly tools still in use to this day: the library catalog and the “biobibliographical” reference work. Kallimachos expanded the library’s inventory lists into volumes called the Pinakes, which extensively described and categorized each work and became in effect a Greek national bibliography and the source and paradigm for most later bibliographic lists of Greek literature. Though the Pinakes have not survived, Blum attempts a detailed reconstruction of Kallimachos’s inventories and catalogs based on a careful analysis of surviving sources, which are presented here in full translation.
Libraries in the Ancient World
Author | : Lionel Casson,John Penn (Joint pseudonym),Tanita S. Davis |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780300088090 |
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