Main entry:

Canfora, Luciano, author.

Title & Author:

The vanished Library / Luciano Canfora ; translated by Martin Ryle.

Edition:

California edition (corrected translation).

Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 1990.

Description:

ix, 205 pages: illustrations ; 24 cm

Series:

Hellenistic culture and society ; 7

Notes:
Translation of: La biblioteca scomparsa.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 100-106) and index.
The Pharaoh's tomb -- The sacred library -- The forbidden city -- The fugitive -- The universal library -- 'I leave my books to Neleus' -- The symposium -- In the cage of the Muses -- The rival library -- Reappearance and disappearance of Aristotle -- The second visitor -- War -- The third visitor -- The Library -- The fire -- The dialogue of John Philoponus with the Emir Amrou Ibn el-Ass while Amrou prepared to burn the Library -- Sources. Gibbon -- The dialogues of Amrou -- Revisions of Aristeas -- Aulus Gellius -- Isidore of Seville -- Livy -- Conjectures -- Hecataeus -- The elusive library -- The Soma of Rameses -- Kadesh -- Strabo and Neleus -- Library traditions -- Conflagrations -- Epilogue.

ISBN:

0520073045 (cloth)
9780520073043 (cloth)
0520072553 (paper)
9780520072558 (paper)

Subject:

Alexandrian Library.
Libraries Egypt Alexandria History To 400.
Civilization, Classical.
Civilization, Ancient.
Bibliothèques Égypte Alexandrie Histoire Jusqu'à 400.
Civilisation ancienne.
Antiquities
Intellectual life
Libraries
Libraries History To 400.
Alexandria (Egypt) Intellectual life.
Alexandria (Egypt) Antiquities.
Egypt Alexandria
Alexandria (Egypt) Libraries.

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Ryle, Martin, 1951- translator.
Hellenistic culture and society ; 7.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 188355
Call No.: ID Z722.5.C3513; ID:90-B6489
Status: Available

Location: Library main 188356
Call No.: ID Z722.5.C3513; ID:90-B6489
Status: Available