By Roy MacLeod
The Library of Alexandria used to be one of many maximum cultural adornments of the past due historical global, containing hundreds of thousands of scrolls of Greek, Hebrew and Mesopotamian literature and artwork and artifacts of historical Egypt. This ebook demonstrates that Alexandria became--through the modern popularity of its library--a aspect of confluence for Greek, Roman, Jewish and Syrian tradition that drew students and statesmen from through the old global. It additionally explores the histories of Alexander the nice and of Alexandria itself, the best urban of the traditional international. This new paperback version bargains normal readers an available advent to the historical past of this tremendous but nonetheless mysterious establishment from the time of its starting place as much as its tragic destruction.
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For reliable, recent translations of the 'classic' literature of ancient Mesopotamia, see Stephanie Dalley, Myths from Mesopotamia (Oxford: OUp, 1989), or Benjamin R. Foster, Before the Muses: An Anthology of Akkadian Literature (Bethesda: CDL Press, 1993),2 vols. 30. Oppenheim, op. cit. 17. 31. Ibid. 17-18. 32. , those concerned with divination by means of the examination of an animal liver. 33. , those concerned with divination by means of the examination of often malformed human or animal foetuses and newborns.
I have also been with Strabo, the geographer and traveller, who lived at the time chronology turned its heel from Be into AD, and I have been with any other ancient writer who took the time and space in their writings to sketch any part of the city. With Strabo's Geogmphy2 in hand (and with an occasional glimpse into the future city as Lawrence Durrell knew it)3 I now go to Alexandria. I am bound to go to Alexandria from anywhere in the known world of this first century of the new era. I might come from Iliyria, Macedonia, Thrace, Syracuse in Sicily, Massilia (Marseilles), Boeotia, Thessaly, Crete or Melita (Malta), and it could take me two weeks or more to get there.
Nissen, Die lexikalischen Listen der archaischen Texte aus Uruk (Berlin: Ausgrabungen der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft in Uruk-Warka 13, 1993); Robert K. Englund, Archaic Administrative Texts from Uruk: The Early Campaigns (Berlin: Ausgrabungen der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft in Uruk-Warka 15, 1994). g. at Jamdat Nasr, for which see Robert K. Englund and Jean-Pierre Gregoire, The Proto-Cuneiform Texts from Jemdet Nasr I: Copies, Transliterations and Glossary (Berlin: Materialien zur frilhen Schriftzeugnissen des Vorderen Orients 1, 1991).