The Library of Alexandria : centre of learning in the ancient world / edited by Roy MacLeod ; with a foreword by Ismail Serageldin.
Publication details: Egypt : The American University in Cairo Press : 2002.Description: xii, 196 pages : map ; 24 cmISBN:- 9774247108
- 9789774247101
- Z722.5 .L53 2002
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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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