The Library of Alexandria :  centre of learning in the ancient world / 
edited by Roy MacLeod ; with a foreword by Ismail Serageldin. 
 - xii, 196 pages :  map ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-190) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> The Library of Alexandria was one of the greatest cultural adornments of the late ancient world and contained thousands of scrolls of Greek, Hebrew and Mesopotamian literature and art and artefacts of ancient Egypt. This text brings together scholars from many disciplines who bring it back to life. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9774247108 (paperback) 9789774247101 (paperback) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2022405844 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Alexandrian Library.<br/>Biblioteca de Alejandría --Historia
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Libraries--History--Egypt--Alexandria--To 400.<br/>Bibliotecas--Historia--Egipto
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Alexandria (Egypt)--Intellectual life.<br/>Alejandría (Egipto) --Vida intelectual <br/>Alexandria (Egypt)--Antiquities.<br/>Alejandría (Egipto) --Antigüedades<br/>Egypt--History--Greco-Roman period, 332 B.C.-640 A.D.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>Z 722.5  / L697 2002