What Happened to the Ancient Library of Alexandria? (2008 El-Abbadi, Fathallah), edited volume

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What Happened to the Ancient Library of Alexandria? (2008) is a volume edited by Mostafa El-Abbadi and Omnia Mounir Fathallah.

Abstract

"This book covers a wide range of topics, beginning with an initial presentation of different Ancient Egyptian types of library institutions, with a special focus on the later Coptic Nag Hamadi Library. It then deals with the troubled times under later Ptolemies and Romans, when the Royal Library, the Daughter Library and the Mouseion, came under a succession of threats: Caesar's Alexandrian War in 48 B.C., and during the tragic developments in the third and fourth centuries which ultimately culminated in the destruction of the Serapeum that housed the Daughter Library." -- Publisher's description.

Editions and translations

Published in Leiden [Netherlands]: Brill, 2008.

Contents

  • A la Recherche de la systematisation des connaissances et du passage du concret a l'abstrait dans l'Egypte ancienne / Mounir H. Megally
  • Private collections and temple libraries in ancient Egypt / Fayza M. Haikal
  • Earth, wind, and fire : the Alexandrian fire-storm of 48 B.C. / William J. Cherf
  • The destruction of the library of Alexandria: an archaeological viewpoint / Jean-Yves Empereur
  • Demise of the daughter library / Mostafa A. El-Abbadi
  • Ce Que Construisent les Ruines / Lucien X. Polastron
  • The Nag Hammadi 'library' of Coptic papyrus codices / Birger A. Pearson
  • Learned women in the Alexandrian scholarship and society of late Hellenism / Maria Dzielska
  • Synesius of Cyrene and the Christian Neoplatonism : patterns of religion and cultural symbiosis / Dimitar Y. Dimitrov
  • Damascus and the 'Collectio Philosophica': a chapter in the history of philosophical schools and libraries in the Neoplatonic tradition / Georges Leroux
  • Academic life of late antique Alexandria : a view from the field / Grzegorz Majcherek
  • The Arab story of the destruction of the ancient library of Alexandria / Qassem Abdou Qassem
  • The Arab destruction of the library of Alexandria : anatomy of a myth / Bernard Lewis

External links

  • [ Google Books]
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