The Library of Alexandria was one of the greatest cultural adornments of the late ancient world. It contained thousands of scrolls of Greek, Hebrew and Mesopotamian literature, as well as art and artifacts of ancient Egypt. This book brings together a distinguished array of scholars to bring this great institution--tragically destroyed--back to life.
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"This is a valuable addition to the literature on the Alexandrian library..." --Libraries and Culture
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Roy MacLeod is Professor of History, University of Sydney.
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Between 1849 and 1854 Austen Henry Layard and Hormuzd Rassam recovered roughly 30,000 cuneiform tablets, and fragments thereof, at the Assyrian site of Nineveh in northern Iraq, most in the great mound of Kuyunjik. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Between 1849 and 1854 Austen Henry Layard and Hormuzd Rassam recovered roughly 30,000 cuneiform tablets, and fragments thereof, at the Assyrian site of Nineveh in northern Iraq, most in the great mound of Kuyunjik. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
medieval library, vitae sophistarum, medieval libraries, ancient library Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Name of the Rose, Roman History, Dio Cassius, New York, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Grand Rapids, Phanes Press, Ptolemy Philadelphus, Asia Minor, Ptolemy Soter, Simo Parpola, Mark Antony, Diogenes Laertius, Ernst Weidner, Umberto Eco, Assyrian Library, Great Harbour, Magna Moralia, The Theosophical Publishing House, Ammianus Marcellinus, Aulus Gellius, Clarendon Press, Cornell University Press, Demetrius of Phaleron New!
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- Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead Civilization by A. Leo Oppenheim on 4 pages
- Before The Muses: An Anthology Of Akkadian Literature by Benjamin R. Foster in Front Matter, page 32, and Back Matter
- RC Series Bundle: The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age (Routledge Classics) by Frances Yates on page 160, page 161, and Back Matter
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- Library: An Unquiet History by Matthew Battles in Back Matter
- Libricide: The Regime-Sponsored Destruction of Books and Libraries in the Twentieth Century by Rebecca Knuth on page 48
- Cleopatra and Rome by Diana E. E. Kleiner in Back Matter
- Library: An Unquiet History by Matthew Battles in Back Matter
- The Anglo-Saxon Library by Michael Lapidge in Back Matter
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