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wwwNNY I THE ALEXANDRIAN LIBRARY SHOULD deceive the expectation of the reader if I passed in silence the fate of the Alexandrian library as it is described by the learned Abulpharagius . The spirit of Amrou was more curious and liberal ...
... Alexandrian Library , the largest collection of books of the ancient world , founded by Ptolemy Soter in the city of Alexandria toward the beginning of the third century B. C. At one time it is said to have contained 700,000 manuscripts ...
... Alexandrian Library ( See ALEXANDRIAN LIBRARY ) , and his suc- cessors also encouraged literature . The poetic forms chiefly cultivated by the Alexandrians were the epic , lyric and elegy , and the most distinguished poet was ...
... ALEXANDRIAN LIBRARY SHOULD deceive the expectation of the reader if I passed in silence the fate of the Alexandrian library as it is described by the learned Abulpharagius . The spirit of Amrou was more curious and liberal than that of ...
... Alexandrian Library , the largest collection of books of the ancient world , founded by Ptolemy Soter in the city of Alexandria toward the beginning of the third century B. C. At one time it is said to have contained 700,000 manuscripts ...
... ALEXANDRIAN LIBRARY SHOULD deceive the expectation of the reader if I passed in silence the fate of the Alexandrian library as it is described by the learned Abulpharagius . The spirit of Amrou was more curious and liberal than that of ...
... Alexandrian Library , the largest and most famous of all the ancient collections of books , planned by Ptolemy Soter , king of Egypt , who died about 283 B. C. His son Ptolemy Phila- delphus and succeeding rulers developed and enlarged ...
THE ALEXANDRIAN LIBRARY SHOULD deceive the expectation of the reader if I passed in silence the fate of the Alexandrian library as it is described by the learned Abulpharagius . The spirit of Amrou was more curious and liberal than that ...