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In A.D. 77, Marcus Didius Falco, agent to the Emperor Vespasian, investigates the mysterious death of the head librarian of the world-famous library of Alexandria, bringing him into immediate conflict with the darker side of academic life.
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The Rise and Fall of the Library of Alexandria
The project to bring together all the books of the world in Alexandria was not only intended to contribute to the glory of the Ptolemies, but also aimed to attract scholars to the city, who would be capable of exploiting these books to produce others and to thus advance the literature and science of their time. This book demonstrates that the availability and critical study of the 500,000 scrolls which the Library of Alexandria probably contained made possible the production of some remarkable pieces of Alexandrian literature and philosophy, the considerable increase in historical and geographical knowledge, as well as outstanding contributions to the history of mathematics, astronomy, mechanics, and medicine.The book recalls how Alexandria was founded and became the most beautiful city in the ancient world. It also recalls the incredible series of wars, popular revolts, assassinations, palace intrigues, and debaucheries that brought about the inexorable decline of this city and its Library.
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Library
The great Library of Alexandria was established in the third century BC. It became a centre for mathematics, physics and astronomy and it earned a legendary reputation.
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In short. Episode 98, Library
Episode 98 – Library: The great Library of Alexandria was established in the third century BC. It became a centre for mathematics, physics and astronomy and it earned a legendary reputation.
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What Happened to the Ancient Library of Alexandria?
This book aims at presenting a new discussion of primary sources by renowned scholars of the long disputed question of What Happened to the Ancient Library of Alexandria? The treatment includes a brilliant presentation of cultural Alexandrian life in late antiquity.
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The Library in Alexandria and the Bible in Greek
Hellenistic scholarship is advanced when ancient evidence reveals that despite Jewish opposition, the earliest written translation of the Bible was made in Alexandria in 281 BCE, and that Ptolemy Lagus built the famous library, placing Demetrius of Phalerum in charge.
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Kallimachos : the Alexandrian Library and the origins of bibliography
The famous library of Alexandria, founded around 295 BCE by Ptolemaios I, housed the greatest collection of texts in the ancient world and was a fertile site of Hellenistic scholarship. Rudolf Blum’s landmark study, originally published in German in 1977, argues that Kallimachos of Kyrene was not only the second director of the Alexandrian library but also the inventor of two essential scholarly tools still in use to this day: the library catalog and the “biobibliographical” reference work. Kallimachos expanded the library’s inventory lists into volumes called the Pinakes , which extensively described and categorized each work and became in effect a Greek national bibliography and the source and paradigm for most later bibliographic lists of Greek literature. Though the Pinakes have not survived, Blum attempts a detailed reconstruction of Kallimachos’s inventories and catalogs based on a careful analysis of surviving sources, which are presented here in full translation.
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Literature in the Hellenistic World
In the Hellenistic period Greek poets played a role in the preservation of what was gradually becoming a literary (rather than oral) tradition, and not just within the ambit of patronage and royal libraries. Production and consumption were not so closely linked, spatially and temporally, as they had been in previous years. With the loss of original performance contexts, familiarity with works that were increasingly seen as canonical (e.g., Homeric epic) became a more mobile sign of Greek identity. Literary culture in Asia and northern Africa has often been perceived as a marker of (newly imported) Hellenic sophistication, yet institutional libraries, both the collections housed in temples and palaces and the readers and writers associated with them, had long existed in those lands. This chapter accordingly situates third‐century Greek poetry in the shifting social and political contexts of literary cultures in the Seleucid Empire as well as intellectual communities of Ptolemaic Egypt, Macedonia, and Pergamon.
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The Oriental Origins of the Alexandrian Library
Examines the contribution of Near Eastern libraries to library history through their relationship to and possible influence on the ancient Alexandrian Library. Although not denying the substance of the traditional Greek thesis for the origin of the Alexandrian Library, the Oriental origins of the library are presented in a new light, relying upon Egyptian and Mesopotamian evidence. Original abstract-amended.
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