... 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 must have contained many duplicates of literary works , the Caesarean library may have held ... Alexandrian Library in Classical and Islamic Traditions , " AHR 97 ( 1992 ) , pp . 1449-1467 . 105 R. Blum ...
... Alexandrian library , if only from the title , which indicates a selection and refers , specifically , not to all Greek writers , but only to those who distinguished themselves in the field of culture . Moreover the fragments show that ...
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 , 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 ...
... Alexandrian library demanded far more systematic cataloguing, with books split between many different chambers. The texts were stored alphabetically, though presumably also organised by genre, the leading principle of classification in ...
Ancient and Modern Charles Dudley Warner. 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 ...
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 ...
... Alexandrian library : “ why need I even speak , since they are in all men's memories . ” In the elitist scholarly games of Athenaeus ' characters , there was no need to provide reminders of what everyone knew . But Athenaeus ' modern ...
... Alexandrian Library , 84-7 . 11. Robert Barnes , ' Cloistered Bookworms in the Chicken - Coop of the Muses : The ... Alexandrian Library and the Origins of Bibliography , tr . Hans H. Wellisch ( Madison , WI : University of ...