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Author | : Mostafa El-Abbadi |
Publisher | : UNESCO |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
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A thoroughly researched study on the history of both the Museum and the Alexandria Library, showing the important role they played in the transmission of Greco-roman civilization. The tragic fate of both institutions have long been of great fascination for both writers and readers.
Author | : Mostafa El-Abbadi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1996-01-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789235026320 |
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A thoroughly researched study on the history of both the Museum and the Alexandria Library, showing the important role they played in the transmission of Greco-roman civilization. The tragic fate of both institutions have long been of great fascination for both writers and readers. Published also in Arabic, English, French, Russian and Spanish
Author | : Mostafa el- Abbadi |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004165452 |
Download What Happened to the Ancient Library of Alexandria? Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Luciano Canfora |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1990-08-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520072558 |
Download The Vanished Library Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Recreates the world of ancient Egypt, describes how the Library of Alexandria was created, and speculates on its destruction.
Author | : Roy MacLeod |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2005-01-14 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0857714384 |
Download The Library of Alexandria Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Library of Alexandria was one of the greatest cultural adornments of the late ancient world, containing thousands of scrolls of Greek, Hebrew and Mesopotamian literature and art and artefacts of ancient Egypt. This book demonstrates that Alexandria became - through the contemporary reputation of its library - a point of confluence for Greek, Roman, Jewish and Syrian culture that drew scholars and statesmen from throughout the ancient world. It also explores the histories of Alexander the Great and of Alexandria itself, the greatest city of the ancient world. This new paperback edition offers general readers an accessible introduction to the history of this magnificent yet still mysterious institution from the time of its foundation up to its tragic destruction.
Author | : Fernando Báez |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download A Universal History of the Destruction of Books Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Examines the many reasons and motivations for the destruction of books throughout history, citing specific acts from the smashing of ancient Sumerian tablets to the looting of libraries in post-war Iraq.
Author | : J. Raven |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2004-01-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0230524257 |
Download Lost Libraries Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This pioneering volume of essays explores the destruction of great libraries since ancient times and examines the intellectual, political and cultural consequences of loss. Fourteen original contributions, introduced by a major re-evaluative history of lost libraries, offer the first ever comparative discussion of the greatest catastrophes in book history from Mesopotamia and Alexandria to the dispersal of monastic and monarchical book collections, the Nazi destruction of Jewish libraries, and the recent horrifying pillage and burning of books in Tibet, Bosnia and Iraq.
Author | : Justin Pollard |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2007-10-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780143112518 |
Download The Rise and Fall of Alexandria Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A short history of nearly everything classical. The foundations of the modern world were laid in Alexandria of Egypt at the turn of the first millennium. In this compulsively readable narrative, Justin Pollard and Howard Reid bring one of history's most fascinating and prolific cities to life, creating a treasure trove of our intellectual and cultural origins. Famous for its lighthouse, its library-the greatest in antiquity-and its fertile intellectual and spiritual life--it was here that Christianity and Islam came to prominence as world religions--Alexandria now takes its rightful place alongside Greece and Rome as a titan of the ancient world. Sparkling with fresh insights on science, philosophy, culture, and invention, this is an irresistible, eye- opening delight.
Author | : Caroline Lawrence |
Publisher | : Orion Children's Books |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2010-12-09 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1842557327 |
Download The Scribes from Alexandria Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A desperate quest begins in the port of Alexandria: site of the great lighthouse, the famous Library, and the tomb of Alexander the Great. Codes, riddles, anagrams and hieroglyphics lead the young detectives down the river Nile to pyramids and sphinxes, temples and tombs, crocodiles and hippos. But what lies at the end of the journey? Treasure? Or death?
Author | : Richard Ovenden |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2020-10-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0674241207 |
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The director of the famed Bodleian Libraries at Oxford narrates the global history of the willful destruction—and surprising survival—of recorded knowledge over the past three millennia. Libraries and archives have been attacked since ancient times but have been especially threatened in the modern era. Today the knowledge they safeguard faces purposeful destruction and willful neglect; deprived of funding, libraries are fighting for their very existence. Burning the Books recounts the history that brought us to this point. Richard Ovenden describes the deliberate destruction of knowledge held in libraries and archives from ancient Alexandria to contemporary Sarajevo, from smashed Assyrian tablets in Iraq to the destroyed immigration documents of the UK Windrush generation. He examines both the motivations for these acts—political, religious, and cultural—and the broader themes that shape this history. He also looks at attempts to prevent and mitigate attacks on knowledge, exploring the efforts of librarians and archivists to preserve information, often risking their own lives in the process. More than simply repositories for knowledge, libraries and archives inspire and inform citizens. In preserving notions of statehood recorded in such historical documents as the Declaration of Independence, libraries support the state itself. By preserving records of citizenship and records of the rights of citizens as enshrined in legal documents such as the Magna Carta and the decisions of the US Supreme Court, they support the rule of law. In Burning the Books, Ovenden takes a polemical stance on the social and political importance of the conservation and protection of knowledge, challenging governments in particular, but also society as a whole, to improve public policy and funding for these essential institutions.