The Alexandrian Library : Glory of the Hellenic World. Its Rise, Antiquities, and Destructions

by: Parsons, E.A.

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The Alexandrian Library, glory of the Hellenic world : its rise, antiquities, and destructions
Author:Edward Alexander Parsons

Contents:
Book One. Books and libraries in ancient Hellas. Libraries of Old Greece
Libraries of New Greece : the Attalids of Pergamum
Libraries of New Greece : the Seleucids of Antioch-on-Orontes
Book Two. The founding of Alexandria. The city of Alexandria
Book Three. The founding of the museum and the library. The founding of the museum and the library, Ptolemy Soter and Demetrios of Phaleron
The Plautine Scholium from Tzetzes
The personnel of the Alexandrian Library
The collecting of the books or manuscripts : the Greek books
The collecting of the books or manuscripts : the non-Greek books
The classification and cataloguing of the material assembled
The editing of texts and fixing the canons of literature
Homer
Book Four. The destruction of the library. Caesar's visit
Minor imperial depredations
Major imperial depredations
The fall of Paganism
Islam, the last phase

xii, 468 pages, 10 unnumbered leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 23 cm

The Alexandrian Library : Glory of the Hellenic World. Its Rise, Antiquities, and Destructions

by: Parsons, E.A.

• The Elsevier Press, Amsterdam, 1952

Price: 95,00 EURO

1 copy in stock