Further reading
Barnes, R. (2004) ‘Cloistered bookworms in the chicken-coop of the Muses: the ancient library of Alexandria’, in MacLeod, R. (ed.) The Library of Alexandria: Centre of Learning in the Ancient World, London and New York, I.B. Tauris, pp. 61–77.
Canfora, L. (1987) The Vanished Library, London, Vintage.
Casson, L. (2001) Libraries in the Ancient World, New Haven, CT and London, Yale University Press.
Finneran, N. (2005) Alexandria: A City and Myth, Stroud, Tempus.
Paul, J. (2013) ‘Subverting sex and love in Alejandro Amenábar’s Agora’ in Cyrino, M.S. (ed.) Screening Love and Sex in the Ancient World, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 227–41.
Too, Y.L. (2010) The Idea of the Library in the Ancient World, Oxford, Oxford University Press.