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...
Други автори: | El-Abbadi, Mostafa., Fathallah, Omnia Mounir. |
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Формат: | Електронна книга |
Език: | English French |
Публикувано: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2008.
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Серия: |
Library of the written word ;
3. Library of the written word. Manuscript world ; v. 1. |
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What happened to the ancient Library of Alexandria? |
Съдържание:
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Contributors
- The Alexandria Project
- Introduction
- A la Recherche de la Systematisation des Connaissances et du Passage du Concret a l'Abstrait dans l' Egypte Ancienne (Mounir H. Megally)
- Private Collections and Temple Libraries in Ancient Egypt (Fayza M. Haikal)
- Earth, Wind, and Fire: The Alexandrian Fire-storm of 48 B.C (William J. Cherf)
- The Destruction of the Library of Alexandria: An Archaeological Viewpoint (Jean-Yves Empereur)
- Demise of the Daughter Library (Mostafa A. El-Abbadi)
- Ce Que Construisent les Ruines (Lucien X. Polastron)
- The Nag Hammadi 'Library' of Coptic Papyrus Codices (Birger A. Pearson)
- Learned Women in the Alexandrian Scholarship and Society of Late Hellenism (Maria Dzielska)
- Synesius of Cyrene and the Christian Neoplatonism: Patterns of Religious and Cultural Symbiosis (Dimitar Y. Dimitrov)
- Damascius and the 'Collectio Philosophica': A Chapter in the History of Philosophical Schools and Libraries in the Neoplatonic Tradition (Georges Leroux)
- Academic Life of Late Antique Alexandria: A View from the Field (Grzegorz Majcherek)
- The Arab Story of the Destruction of the Ancient Library of Alexandria (Qassem Abdou Qassem)
- The Arab Destruction of the Library of Alexandria: Anatomy of a Myth (Bernard Lewis)
- Bibliography
- I. Sources
- II. Lexical Works
- III. Modern Literature
- General Index.