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The vanished library / Luciano Canfora ; translated by Martin Ryle.
Van Pelt Library Z722.5 .C3513 1989
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Canfora, Luciano.
- Standardized Title:
- Biblioteca scomparsa. English
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Aliksāndrīnā (Library).
- Libraries--Egypt--Alexandria--History--To 400.
- Libraries.
- Learning and scholarship--Egypt--Alexandria--History.
- Learning and scholarship.
- Civilization, Classical.
- History.
- Alexandria (Egypt)--Antiquities.
- Alexandria (Egypt).
- Alexandria (Egypt)--Intellectual life.
- Egypt--Alexandria.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 205 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Hutchinson Radius, 1989, c1987.
- Summary:
- The Library of Alexandria . . . a Wonder of the Ancient World. What was it? Where was it? Did it exist at all? Contemporary descriptions are vague and contradictory, but Luciano Canfora resolves these puzzles in one of the most unusual books of classical history ever written.
- Notes:
- Translation of: Biblioteca scomparsa.
- ISBN:
- 0091740495 :
- OCLC:
- 19847537
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