Alfred Gudeman. THE ALEXANDRIAN LIBRARY AND MUSEUM . ΙΟΙ destruction of a very considerable number of MS although the statements of Plutarch that 400,000 vo- umes were burned and of Gellius ... ALEXANDRIAN LIBRARY AND MUSEUM. ΙΟΙ ...

Rudolf Blum’s landmark study, originally published in German in 1977, argues that Kallimachos of Kyrene was not only the second director of the Alexandrian library but also the inventor of two essential scholarly tools still in use to ...

This collection, written by an international team of scholars, presents a fundamental reassessment of how ancient libraries came into being, how they were organized and how they were used.

... Alexandrian Library and the fate of its intellectual content in 48 B.C. have been discussed by Classical philologists, historians, and archaeologists over the past 183 years. The select bibliography alone is simply enormous, numbering ...

Encyclopedic in its breadth and novelistic in its telling, this volume will occupy a treasured place on the bookshelf next to Baker's Double Fold, Basbanes's A Gentle Madness, Manguel's A History of Reading, and Winchester's The Professor ...

... Alexandrian Library - Callimachus of Cyrene . Of his tenure of office there is much controversy , but of his position as the dominant figure in the Alexandrian intellectual world there should be none . The winds of controversy have not ...

A thoroughly researched study on the history of both the Museum and the Alexandria Library, showing the important role they played in the transmission of Greco-roman civilization.

... Alexandrian Library, to the monasteries celebrated by Umberto Eco, and explores the significance for medieval Europe of the disappear- ance of the Alexandrian library, and the fabric of ancient learning. He considers what of ...

The book can only enrich research and teaching."—William M. Calder III, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign

Originally published in hardcover in 2015 by New American Library.