The Library of Alexandria (2000 MacLeod), edited volume

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The Library of Alexandria: Centre of Learning in the Ancient World (2000) is a volume edited by Roy M. MacLeod.

Abstract

Editions and translations

Published in London [England]: Tauris; and New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Contents

  • Introduction: Alexandria in history and myth / Roy MacLeod

pt. 1. Alexandria in history and myth.

  • 1. Before Alexandria: libraries in the Ancient Near East / D.T. Potts
  • 2. Alexandria: the umbilicus of the ancient world / Wendy Brazil
  • 3. Cloistered bookworms in the chicken-coop of the muses: the ancient library of Alexandria / Robert Barnes
  • 4. Aristotle's works : the possible origins of the Alexandria collection / R.G. Tanner

pt. 2. Scholarship in the Alexandrian manner.

  • 5. Doctors in the library: the strange tale of Apollonius the bookworm and other stories / John Vallance
  • 6. The theatre of Paphos and the theatre of Alexandria: some first thoughts / J.R. Green
  • 7. Scholars and students in the Roman East / Samuel N.C. Lieu
  • 8. The Neoplatonists and the mystery schools of the Mediterranean / Patricia Cannon Johnson
  • 9. Alexandria and its Medieval legacy: the book, the monk and the rose / J.O. Ward

External links

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