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The book can only enrich research and teaching."—William M. Calder III, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign
"alexandrian library" from books.google.com
Originally published in hardcover in 2015 by New American Library.
"alexandrian library" from books.google.com
Ancient evidence reveals that the earliest, written translation of the Bible in Greek was completed in Alexandria in 281 BCE, probably by seventy-one scholars, invited especially from Judaea by Ptolemy II. The work was organised by ...
"alexandrian library" from books.google.com
This text is intended to serve as a reference tool for undergraduate and graduate students interested in library history, for library school educators whose teaching requires knowledge of the historical development of library institutions, ...
"alexandrian library" from books.google.com
... Alexandrian library is the text collection that has occupied most of the history of the ancient library, even to the extent of occluding the significance of other libraries, and that indeed had a considerable life of nearly a millennium ...
"alexandrian library" from books.google.com
Ad maiorem Dei gloriam: Joseph Rhakendys' synopsis of Byzantine learning Erika Gielen; 13. Shifting horizons: the medieval compilation of knowledge as mirror of a changing world Elizabeth Keen; 14.
"alexandrian library" from books.google.com
There is a rich body of encyclopaedic writing which survives from the two millennia before the Enlightenment. This book sheds new light on that material.
"alexandrian library" from books.google.com
... Alexandrian library as a junior assistant. The order and dates of the Alexandrian librarians are uncertain; the three authorities for our list (the Byzantine lexicon Suidas, the twelfth-century scholar Tzetzes, and the papyrus fragment ...
"alexandrian library" from books.google.com
... Alexandrian library , 2 : 407 ; 4 : 246 ; 7 : 574 ; 8 : 491 ; 18 : 341 , 343 ; 26 : 6 ; 28 : 387 ; 30 : 411 ; 31 : 216 ; 33 : 530 Canon Greek poetry , 1 : 402 catalog , 1 : 120 cataloging of , 1 : 403 destruction , 1 : 121 editorial ...
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... Alexandrian library and for his contribution as a scholar and a librarian. As we can see from the Suda list, Callimachus, who was a typical repre- sentative of the antiquarian researcher of Hellenism, wrote reams of works on a great ...