The Library of Alexandria : centre of learning in the ancient world / edited by Roy MacLeod

Published: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2000.
New York, NY : In the U.S.A. and Canada, distributed by St. Martin's Press.
Physical Description: xii, 196 pages : map ; 23 cm
Additional Creators: MacLeod, Roy

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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.

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1860644287

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-190) and indexes.

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