The Library of Alexandria : centre of learning in the ancient world / edited by Roy MacLeod
de MacLeod, Roy
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New York : I.B. Tauris, 2001. Second Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xii, 196 pages : map ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-190) and index. Contents; Introduction : Alexandria in history and myth / Roy MacLeod -- pt. 1. Alexandria in history and myth. Ch. 1. Before Alexandria : libraries in the Ancient Near East / D.T. Potts ; Ch. 2. Alexandria : the umbilicus of the ancient world / Wendy Brazil ; Ch. 3. Cloistered bookworms in the chicken-coop of the muses : the ancient library of Alexandria / Robert Barnes ; Ch. 4. Aristotle's works : the possible origins of the Alexandria collection / R.G. Tanner -- pt. 2. Scholarship in the Alexandrian manner. Ch. 5. Doctors in the library : the strange tale of Apollonius the bookworm and other stories / John Vallance ; Ch. 6. The theatre of Paphos and the theatre of Alexandria : some first thoughts / J.R. Green ; Ch. 7. Scholars and students in the Roman East / Samuel N.C. Lieu ; Ch. 8. The Neoplatonists and the mystery schools of the Mediterranean / Patricia Cannon Johnson ; Ch. 9. Alexandria and its Medieval legacy : the book, the monk and the rose / J.O. Ward. Subjects; Alexandrian Library. Alexandrian Libraries and Museum. To 640. Ancient. Libraries Egypt Alexandria History To 400. Civilization, Classical. Libraries history. Antiquities. Civilization, Classical.
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- The Library of Alexandria : centre of learning in the ancient world / edited by Roy MacLeod
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- MacLeod, Roy
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- Second Edition
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- 1860644287
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- 9781860644283
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- London
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- 2001
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