The Library of Alexandria
Subtitle: centre of learning in the ancient world
By: edited by Roy MacLeod.
Contributors: MacLeod, Roy M.
Edition: New pbk. ed.
Publisher: I.B. Tauris; In the United States and Canada distributed by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
Subjects: Alexandrian Library.; Libraries -- Egypt -- Alexandria -- History -- To 400.; Civilization, Classical.; Alexandria (Egypt) -- Intellectual life.; Alexandria (Egypt) -- Antiquities.; Egypt -- History -- Greco-Roman period, 332 B.C.-640 A.D.; Egypt -- History -- Greco Roman period, 332 B.C.-640 A.D.
Description: xii, 196 p. : 24 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-190) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Alexandria in history and myth / Roy MacLeod; title: Before Alexandria : libraries in the Ancient Near East / D.T. Potts; title: Alexandria : the umbilicus of the ancient world / Wendy Brazil; title: Cloistered bookworms in the chicken-coop of the muses : the ancient library of Alexandria / Robert Barnes; title: Aristotle's works : the possible origins of the Alexandria collection / R.G. Tanner; title: Doctors in the library : the strange tale of Apollonius the bookworm and other stories / John Vallance; title: The theatre of Paphos and the theatre of Alexandria : some first thoughts / J.R. Green; title: Scholars and students in the Roman East / Samuel N.C. Lieu; title: The Neoplatonists and the mystery schools of the Mediterranean / Patricia Cannon Johnson; title: Alexandria and its Medieval legacy : the book, the monk and the rose / J.O. Ward.