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The vanished library: a wonder of the ancient world

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The Library of Alexandria, one of the wonders of the Ancient World, has haunted Western culture for over 2,000 years. The Ptolemaic kings of Egypt—successors of Alexander the Great—had a staggering ambition: to house all of the books ever written under one roof, and the story of the universal library and its destruction still has the power to move us.

But what was the library, and where was it? Did it exist at all? Contemporary descriptions are vague and contradictory. The fate of the precious books themselves is a subject of endless speculation.

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Z. HANDIMAN

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026.932 CAN v

Publisher

Berkeley : University of California Press., 1990

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ix,205p.; 23 cm.

Language

English

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0-520-07255-3

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026.932

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LIBRARIES - EGYPT, ALEXANDRIA

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