(BQ) Part 1 book “The vanished library” has contents: 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, and other contents. | A Wo~~r of the Ancient World -- THE VANISHED LIBRARY Luciano Canfora Translated by Martin Ryle UNIVERSII'Y OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley • Los Angeles University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California First published by Hutchinson Radius 1989 California Edition (Corrected Translation) 1990 © 1987 Sellerio editore via Siracusa 50 Palermo Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Canfora, Luciano. [Biblioteca scomparsa, English] The vanished library / Luciano Canfora : translated by Martin Ryle. p. em. Translation of: La biblioteca scomparsa. Includes index. ISBN 0-520-07304-5 (cloth).-ISBN 0-520-07255-3 (paper) I. Alexandria (Egypt). Library. 2. Libraries-Egypt-AlexandriaHistory-to 400. 3. Alexandria (Egypt)-Intellectuallife. 4. Alexandria (Egypt)-Antiquities. 5. Civilization, Classical. I. Title. Z7 22 ·5· C 35 13 1990 026'93 2-dC20 90-11087 CIP Typeset by Selectmove Ltd, London Printed in the United States of America 4 5 6 7 8 9 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences - Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI 1984. .
