What happened to the ancient Library of Alexandria? /
"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 Libra...
| Other Authors: | El-Abbadi, Mostafa., Fathallah, Omnia Mounir. |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English French |
| Published: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2008.
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| Series: |
Library of the written word ;
3. Library of the written word. Manuscript world ; v. 1. |
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| Online Access: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=362122 |
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Print version::
What happened to the ancient Library of Alexandria? |
| Summary: |
"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."--Jacket. |
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xx, 259 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-240) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9789047433026 9047433025 1283060698 9781283060691 |
| ISSN: |
1874-4834 ; |