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THE
LIBRARY
OF
ALEXANDRIA
 
THE
LIBRARYOF ALEXANDRIA
CENTRE
OF
LEARNING
IN
THE
ANCIENT
WORLD
Edited by
Roy
MACLEOD
I.B.TAURIS
www.ibtauris.com
 
Reprinted in 2010 by I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd6 Salem Road, London W2 4BU175 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10010www.ibtauris.comDistributed in the United States and Canada Exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan175 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10010Revised paperback edition published in 2004 by I.B.Tauris & Co LtdPaperback edition published in 2002 by I.B.Tauris & Co LtdFirst published in 2000 by I.B.Tauris & Co LtdCopyright © Roy MacLeod, 2000, 2002, 2004The right of Roy MacLeod to be identified as the author of this work has been assertedby the author in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or any part thereof,may not be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, inany form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording orotherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher.ISBN: 978 1 85043 594 5 A full CIP record for this book is available from the British LibraryA full CIP record is available from the Library of CongressLibrary of Congress Catalog Card Number: availableTypeset by The Midlands Book Typesetting Co., Loughborough, LeicestershirePrinted and bound in India by Thomson Press India Ltd
 
Contents
Notes
on
ContributorsMap
of
Alexandria
Preface
Introduction: Alexandria
in
History
and
Myth
Roy MacLeod
Part
I.
Alexandria
in History
and
Myth
1.
Before Alexandria: Libraries in
the
Ancient
Near
East
VB
x
Xl
D.T
Potts
19
2.
Alexandria:
The
Umbilicus
of
the
Ancient
World
Wendy
Brazil 35
3.
Cloistered
Bookworms
in
the
Chicken-Coop
of
the
Muses:
The
Ancient
Library
of
Alexandria
Robert Barnes
61
4. Aristotle's Works:
The
Possible
Origins
of
theAlexandria
Collection
R.G. Tanner
Part
II.
Scholarship
in
theAlexandrian
Manner
5. Doctors in
the
Library:
The
Strange
T,ile
of
Apollonius
the
Bookworm
and
Other
Stories
79
John
Vallance
95
6.
The
Theatre
of
Paphos
and
the
Theatre of
Alexandria:
Some
First
Thoughts
.f.R.
Green 115
7.
Scholars
and
Students
in
the
Roman
East
Samuel
N.
C.
Lien
8.
The
Neoplatonists
and
the
Mystery Schools
of
the Mediterranean
Patricia Cannon Johnson
9.
Alexandria
and
its Medieval Legacy:
The
Book,
the
Monk
and
the
Rose
J.O.
Ward
Bibliography
Index
127
143
163
181
191
 
Notes
on
Contributors
Robert Barnes
is
a
Senior
Lecturer
in Classics
at the
Australian
National
University, with interests in
ancient
philosophy
and
religion,
and
in
bibliography
and
the
history
of
libraries.
He
has
been muchconcerned
to
arouse public
discussion
of
therecent
narrowing
of
itscollecting policy by
the
National
Library
of
Australia.
Wendy
Brazil
took
her
BA
at
the
University
of
Sydney, MA
degrees
in Classics
and
Linguistics
at
the
Australian National
University,
and
a
MEd
degreeatthe
University
of
Canberra.
She
has
been
a
research
officer
in
ParliamentHouse,
a
librarian
at
the
National
Library
of
Australia, a
tutor
in
education
at
the
University
of
Canberra,
a
theatre
reviewer,
and
is
currently
a Fellow
of
University
House
at
the
ANU.
She
also
is
a
teacher
of
Latin
and
Greek
in
secondary
schools
and
at
theCentre
for
Continuing
Education
(ANU).
She
is
the
authorof
articles in
the
IPA Review
and
Education Monitor,
and
has
written
anew
curriculum for
Latin,
entitled
Fabulous Latin.
She
is
also
the
convenor
of
the
Latin ReadingSymposium
at
University
House 'inuino
latinitas',
and
'Latin
with
Lunch'
at the
University
of
Canberra.
J.R. Green
is
Professor
of
Classical Archaeology
at
the
University
of
Sydney
and
is
the authorof
numerous
books
and
articles
on
ancienttheatre, including
Images
of
the
Greek
Theatre
(British
Museum
Press1995;
Greek
translation,Crete
University Press 1996)
and
Theatre inAncient Greek Society
(Routledge 1994,
paperback
1996).
He
is
Director
of
the
University's excavations in Paphos, Cyprus,
and
a
Senior
Research Fellow
of
the
Institute
of
Classical Studies,
London.
Patricia
Cannon
Johnson
was
born
in
England,
and
studied
conserva
tion
of
antiquities
at the
University
of
London
Institute
of
Archaeology.
She
then
worked
for
thirteen
years in
the
Egyptian
and
Greek
and
Roman
departments
of
the
British Museum.
In
1980,
after
a
period
as a freelance,
she became Conservator
at
the
Nicholson
Museum
of
the
University
of
Sydney, from which she
retired in
1997.
She
now works as a writer, restorer,
and
teacher
of
Mystery studies.
Samuel
N.C.
Lieu
is
the
Professor
of
Ancient
History
at
Macquarie
University,
and
co-Director
of
its
Ancient
History
Documentary
Research
Centre.
He
was previously
Professor
of
Classics
and
Ancient
History
at
Warwick University,
and
Director
of
its
Centre for
Research in East
Roman
Studies.
He
read
Ancient
History
at
VII
 
THE
LIBRARY
OF
ALEXANDRIA
Cambridge
and
took
his
doctorate at Oxford
with
a thesis
on
thecomparative
study
of
Manichaeismin
Rome
and
China.
Since 1990,
he
has
been co-ordinator
of
the
Corpus
Fontium
Manichaeorum
Project -a
UNESCO
sponsored
project
which
aims
to
publish
60+
volumes
Manichaean
texts
discovered
by
archaeologists
from sites
along
the
Silk
Road
in
Central
Asia
and
from sites
in
Egypt.
In
1996
he
was
awarded
a
grant
by
the
Australian
Research
Council
for a
project
on
Manichaean
texts. His
research interests
includethecomparative
study
of
historiography in
Rome
and
Chain, the
military
history
of
Rome's
eastern
frontier,
the
conflict
of
paganism
and
Christianity
in
Late
Antiquity,
and
the
use
of
computers
for research
and
teaching
in
ancient
history.
He
is
a
l<'ellow
of
the
Society
of
Anti
quaries (London)
and
the
Australian Academy
of
the Humanities.
Roy MacLeod
is
the
Professor
of
History
atthe
University
of
Sydney.
Educated at
Harvard,
the London
School
of
Economics,
and
Cambridge,
he
has written
extensively
on
the
history
of
European
science, technology
and
medicine,
and
on
the
history
of
Europeanexpansion
overseas.
He
has
taught
in
England,
France,
the Nether
lands
and
theUnited
States,
and
has
held
senior
appointments at
several universities.
He
is
a Fellow
of
the
Society
of
Antiquaries
of
London,
andof
the
Academy for
the
Social Sciences in Australia.
He
is
currently writing
on
the
transmission
of
ideas from
Europe
to
the'periphery',
as
seen
through the
idea, ideology
and
architecture
of
the
modern
museum.
D.T. Potts
is
Edwin
Cuthbert
Hall
Professor
of
Middle
Eastern
Archaeology
at
the
University
of
Sydney.
He
has excavated
exten
sively
inthe
United
Arab
Emirates in recent
years
and
has written
extensively
on
a wide
range
of
topics in
the
archaeology
and
early
history
of
Iran, Mesopotamia
and
Arabia.
He
is
best
known
for histwo
volume
work,
The Arabian
Gulf
in Antiquity,
published
by
Oxford
University Press
in
1990;
for
his two
volumes
on
the
Pre-IslamicCoinage
of
Eastern Arabia,
published
in
Copenhagen
in 1991
and
1994;
for
his
recent
Mesopotamian Civilization: The Material Foundations,
co-published
by
Athlone (London)
and
Cornell
University Pressin 1997;
and
for
The Archaeology
of
Elam
published
by
Cambridge
University Press
in
1999.
He
is
the founder
andeditor
of
theinterna
tional
journal
Arabian Archaeology
&
Epigraphy
published
by
Munksgaard
in
Denmark,
as well as
the
founder
and
co-editor
of
ABIEL, a
monograph
series focusing
on
Arabian archaeology
and
epigraphy, published
by Brepols
in
Belgium.
He
is
l<'ellow
of
the
Society
of
Antiquaries (London)
and
the
AustralianAcademy
of
the
Humanities.
V
III
 
NOTES
ON CONTRIBUTORS
R.G. Tanner
is
Professor
Emeritus
of
Classics
and
Lecturer
in
Sanskrit
at the
University
of
Newcastle, New
South
Wales.
He
graduated
from
Cambridge in
1952,
and
subsequently
taught
at
Melbourne
University,
1953-5,
and
at
The
King's School
Parramatta,
1957-1959,
before
moving
to Newcastle as a
Senior
Lecturer
in 1960.
He
was
Foundation
Professor
of
Classics
at
Newcastle from 1964 to 1993.
He
was
Commonwealth
Fellow
at
St.
John's, Cambridge,
1967-68,
and
Presi
dent
of
ASCS,
1992-95.
He
has
published
widely in
ancient
drama,
Latin literature,
Greek
philosophy, patristic studies
and
Sanskrit. Hispublications
on
Artistotle
include
'Aristotle as a
Structural
Linguist'
TPS
(London,
1969),
94-164,
and
'Form
and
Substance
in
Aristotle',
Prudentia,
Xv, 2, (1983),
87-108.
John
Vallance
is
Head
master
of
Sydney
Grammar
School.
He read
Classics
at
the
University
of
Sydney,
and
St.
John's
College
Cambridge.
Between 1986
and
1993,
he
was a Fellow
and
Tutor
of
Gonville
and
Caius College,
Cambridge,
lecturing
in Classics
and
the
History
of
Science.
He
is
the
author
of
articles
on
ancient
philosophy, science
and
medicine, including many
in
thethird edition
of
the
Oxford ClassicalDictionary
(1996),
and
is
an
editorial
adviser
and
contributor
to
the
Enciclopedia Italiana.
His publications
include
The Lost Theory
of
Asclepiades
of
Bithynia
(Oxford, 1990).
He
is
completing
a
Source Book in GreekScience
for
Cambridge
University Press.
J.O. Ward
is
a
Senior
Lecturer
in
the
Department
of
History
at the
University
of
Sydney.
He
has
written
a
number
of
books
and
articles
on
medieval
intellectual life,
general
medieval history,
monastic
history,witchcraft,
the
crusades
and
the
Templars.
He
has
an
internationalreputation
for his
work
on
Ciceronian rhetoric
in
the
Middle
Ages.
He
has
recently
published
Ciceronian Rhetoric
in
Treatise, Scholion,
and
Commentary
(Brepols, 1995)
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