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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 ...
"alexandrian library" from books.google.com
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 ...
"alexandrian library" from books.google.com
In adopting the theme of What Happened to the Ancient Library of Alexandria? this book aims at presenting afresh, a highly specialized discussion of primary sources related to the diverse aspects and episodes of that long disputed question.
"alexandrian library" from books.google.com
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" from books.google.com
The libraries of the ancient world were completely unlike those we know today. This book explores and explains those differences.
"alexandrian library" from books.google.com
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 ...
"alexandrian library" from books.google.com
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" from books.google.com
Traces the evolution of the library through the centuries.
"alexandrian library" from books.google.com
... 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 ...
"alexandrian library" from books.google.com
The book can only enrich research and teaching."—William M. Calder III, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign