Library of Alexandria
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Contents

  • (Untitled section)
  • Learning outcomes
  • 1 Approaching the Library of Alexandria
  • 2 The universal library?
    • 2.1 Assessing the evidence
  • 3 The destruction of the library
  • 4 Reimagining the library
  • Conclusion
  • Readings
    • Andy Potts, ‘The internet’s librarian’
    • Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
    • Plutarch, Life of Caesar 49
    • Dio Cassius, Roman History 42.38.2
    • Ammianus Marcellinus, Histories 22.16.13–14
    • Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
    • Gregory Bar Hebraeus/Abu’l Faraj, Chronicum Syriacum
  • References
  • Further Reading
  • Acknowledgements

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