The Library of Alexandria : centre of learning in the ancient world / edited by Roy MacLeod.
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London ; New York : New York, NY :
I.B. Tauris ; In the U.S.A. and Canada, distributed by St. Martin's Press,
2000.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.