TY  - BOOK
AU  - MacLeod,Roy M.
AU  - Serageldin,Ismail
TI  - The Library of Alexandria: centre of learning in the ancient world 
SN  - 9774247108 (paperback)
AV  - Z 722.5 L697 2002
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Cairo, Egypt
PB  - The American University in Cairo Press
KW  - Alexandrian Library
KW  - Biblioteca de Alejandría
KW  - Historia
KW  - Libraries
KW  - Egypt
KW  - Alexandria
KW  - History
KW  - To 400
KW  - Bibliotecas
KW  - Egipto
KW  - Alexandria (Egypt)
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Alejandría (Egipto)
KW  - Vida intelectual
KW  - Antiquities
KW  - Antigüedades
KW  - Greco-Roman period, 332 B.C.-640 A.D
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-190) and index; 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
N2  - 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
ER  -