What happened to the ancient Library of Alexandria? / edited by Mostafa El-Abbadi and Omnia Mounir Fathallah ; with a preface by Ismail Serageldin
- Bib ID:
- 4402620
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- Description:
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- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008
- xx, 259 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9789004165458
- 9004165452
- Series:
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- Library of the written word ; 3.
- Library of the written word. Manuscript world ; v. 1.
- Summary:
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"This book covers a wide range of topics, beginning with an initial presentation of different Ancient Egyptian types of library institutions, with a special focus on the later Coptic Nag Hamadi Library. It then deals with the troubled times under later Ptolemies and Romans, when the Royal Library, the Daughter Library and the Mouseion, came under a succession of threats: Caesar's Alexandrian War in 48 B.C., and during the tragic developments in the third and fourth centuries which ultimately culminated in the destruction of the Serapeum that housed the Daughter Library."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Machine derived contents note: Contents
- Preface vii
- Acknowledgements xi
- List of Illustrations xiii
- Abbreviations xv
- Contributors xvii
- The Alexandria Project xxi
- Introduction 1
- A la Recherche de la Systematisation des Connaissances et du Passage du Concret a l'Abstrait dans l'Egypte Ancienne
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- Mounir H. Megally
- Private Collections and Temple Libraries in Ancient Egypt 39
- Fayza M. Haikal
- Earth, Wind, and Fire: The Alexandrian Fire-storm of 48 B.C. 55
- William J. Cherf
- The Destruction of the Library of Alexandria:
- An Archaeological Viewpoint 75
- Jean-Yves Empereur
- Demise of the Daughter Library 89
- Mostafa A. El-Abbadi
- Ce Que Construisent les Ruines 95
- Lucien X. Polastron
- The Nag Hammadi 'Library' of Coptic Papyrus Codices 109
- Birger A. Pearson
- vi
- contents
- Learned Women in the Alexandrian Scholarship and
- Society of Late Hellenism
- Maria Dzielska
- 12
- 9
- Synesius of Cyrene and the Christian Neoplatonism:
- Patterns of Religious and Cultural Symbiosis
- Dimitar Y. Dimitrov
- 14
- 9
- Damascius and the 'Collectio Philosophica': A Chapter in
- the History of Philosophical Schools and Libraries in the
- Neoplatonic Tradition
- Georges Leroux
- 17
- 1
- Academic Life of Late Antique Alexandria: A View from
- the Field
- Grzegorz Majcherek
- 19
- 1
- The Arab Story of the Destruction of the Ancient Library
- of Alexandria
- Qassem Abdou Qassem
- 20
- 7
- The Arab Destruction of the Library of Alexandria:
- Anatomy of a Myth
- Bernard Lewis
- 21
- 3
- Bibliography
- I.
- Sources
- II. Lexical Works
- III. Modern
- Literature
- 21
- 9
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- 3
- 22
- 4
- General
- Index
- 241.
- Notes:
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-240) and index.
- In English with 2 chapters in French.
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