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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

This book demonstrates that Alexandria became - through the contemporary reputation of its library - a point of confluence for Greek, Roman, Jewish and Syrian culture that drew scholars and statesmen from throughout the ancient world.

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

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

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 ...

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.