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The Library of Alexandria : centre of learning in the ancient world
- Title
- The Library of Alexandria : centre of learning in the ancient world / edited by Roy MacLeod.
- Publication
- London : New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York, NY : In the U.S.A. and Canada, distributed by St. Martin's Press, 2000.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 00-6819 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- MacLeod, Roy.
- Description
- xii, 196 p. : map; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-190) and indexes.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 00-6819
- ISBN
- 1860644287
- OCLC
- 43600509
- Title
- The Library of Alexandria : centre of learning in the ancient world / edited by Roy MacLeod.
- Imprint
- London : New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York, NY : In the U.S.A. and Canada, distributed by St. Martin's Press, 2000.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-190) and indexes.
- Added Author
- MacLeod, Roy.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 00-6819