What happened to the ancient library of Alexandria?
This book aims at presenting a new discussion of primary sources by renowned scholars of the long disputed question of What Happened to the Ancient Library of Alexandria? The treatment includes a brilliant presentation of cultural Alexandrian life in late antiquity.
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Langue: | English |
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Leiden : BRILL,
2008
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| Édition: | 1. ed. |
| Titres liés à la collection: | Library of the written word The manuscript world
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| Accès à la collection: | Library of the written word |
| Sujets: | Libraries Alexandrian Library Libraries ; Egypt ; Alexandria ; History ; To 400 Electronic books |
| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (281 pages) |
| Résumé: | This book aims at presenting a new discussion of primary sources by renowned scholars of the long disputed question of What Happened to the Ancient Library of Alexandria? The treatment includes a brilliant presentation of cultural Alexandrian life in late antiquity. Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Contributors -- The Alexandria Project -- Introduction -- À la Recherche de la Systématisation des Connaissances et du Passage du Concret à l'Abstrait dans l'Égypte 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 Religious and Cultural Symbiosis (Dimitar Y. Dimitrov) -- Damascius 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) -- Bibliography -- I. Sources -- II. Lexical Works -- III. Modern Literature -- General Index. |
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| Description: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (281 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9789047433026 9047433025 9789004165458 9004165452 |