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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| Other Authors / Creators: | Fathallah, Omnia. Serageldin, Ismail. |
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| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | Leiden : BRILL, 2008. |
| Series: | Library of the Written Word Ser.
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| Local Note: | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 520 | |a 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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| 590 | |a Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Libraries -- Egypt -- Alexandria -- History -- To 400. | |
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| 700 | 1 | |a Serageldin, Ismail. | |
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