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| Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Library of Alexandria. London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : In the United States and Canada distributed by Palgrave Macmillan, 2004 (DLC) 2004304830 (OCoLC)55495402 |
| Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Roy M MacLeod |
| ISBN: | 9781441679482 1441679480 |
| OCLC Number: | 680036296 |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 196 pages) : map |
| Contents: | 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. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Roy MacLeod. |
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