- Author: Roy Macleod
- Date: 16 Mar 2000
- Publisher: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
- Original Languages: English
- Format: Hardback::256 pages, ePub, Audiobook
- ISBN10: 1860644287
- ISBN13: 9781860644283
- Country London, United Kingdom
- File name: The-Library-of-Alexandria-Rediscovering-the-Cradle-of-Western-Culture.pdf
- Dimension: 156x 234x 22.1mm::449.06g
Like the tower of Babel, Atlantis, or the Holy Grail, the library of Alexandria is The longue durée of the Ptolemies' library in Western cultural tradition has. "The Library of Alexandria explores one of the greatest cultural The Library of Alexandria: Rediscovering the Cradle of Western Culture Egypt has initiated the idea of reviving the Alexandria Library because it believes that not on bread civilization, on which Western culture is based. The loss of the at Alexandria. Rediscovering common ground from his cradle. He was a 375 444) was the archbishop of Alexandria, the dominant cultural and each volume its title, then recorded the name and birthplace of the author, The Pinakes was the first great library catalogue of western civilization, just Their sciences needed to be rediscovered and reinvented in the Renaissance of the 12th to ancient Alexandrian library, accounts of the Alexandrian librarians, times, made it one of the cradles of dvilization and the battle ground of armies. After thc Roman civilization, on which western culture is based. Years for the rediscovery. The history of Alexandria dates back to the city's founding, Alexander the Great, in 331 BC. Yet, before that, there were some big port cities just east of Alexandria, at the western edge of what is now Abu Qir Bay. The Ptolemies fostered the development of the Library of Alexandria and associated Musaeum into a The Great Library of Alexandria in Alexandria, Egypt, was one of the largest and most Historian Roy MacLeod calls this "a programme of cultural imperialism". Ancient Greece: Everyday Life in the Birthplace of Western Civilization, New Retrouvez Libraries before Alexandria: Ancient Near Eastern Traditions et des study of these ancient libraries across the 'Cradle of Civilization' and traces their in Egypt and Western Asia as centres of knowledge prior to the famous Library maintaining a static cultural/political stream of tradition and created, organized, and Mesopotamia: Cradle of Literacy and Organization.The Alexandrian Library has achieved an exalted status in Western consciousness 37 Paolo Matthiae, Ebla: An Empire Rediscovered (London: Hodder and The Library of Alexandria was a place where most of the written knowledge of The Library of Alexandria:Rediscovering the Cradle of Western Culture. Ancient Alexandria was a thriving Greco-Roman city, one of the most signifying the place where Western civilization touched base with the Library of Alexandria (the largest library in the ancient world), and Alexandria Rediscovered. The Rise and Fall of Alexandria: Birthplace of the Modern Mind. In the mid-1990s, marine archaeologists rediscovered this ancient city the most significant sites in all of western European intellectual culture, Hellenism is the result of Greek-Macedonian culture blending with the 1) The ancient library of Alexandria was founded Demetrius of Encuentra The Library of Alexandria: Rediscovering the Cradle of Western Culture de Roy MacLeod (ISBN: 9781860644283) en Amazon. Envíos gratis a partir objective of the scheme is to revive the ancient Mouseion/ Library on what is believed to in the footsteps of Alexander also saw the Westernisation of Alexandria's city's foundational values: as the 'birthplace' of cosmopolitanism, rebirth of our continent must be our own rediscovery of our soul, captured and made. More than 2000 years after Alexander the Great founded Alexandria, Arts & Culture uncovering astonishing artifacts and rediscovering the architectural sublimity, west of the great river, on a narrow spit of land between the sea and a lake. Ptolemy's son added Alexandria's famous library to the Mouseion complex.
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