What Happened to the Ancient Library of Alexandria?.

What Happened to the Ancient Library of Alexandria?.

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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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Author / Creator: El-Abbadi, Mostafa.
Other Authors / Creators:Fathallah, Omnia.
Serageldin, Ismail.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Edition:1st ed.
Imprint: Leiden : BRILL, 2008.
Series:Library of the Written Word Ser.
Subjects:
Alexandrian Library.
Libraries > Egypt > Alexandria > History > To 400.
Electronic books.
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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Table of Contents:
  • 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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