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The Ancient Library Alexander the Great -- the Conquests as a source of knowledge The Founding of the Library and the Mouseion The Egyptian Section of the Alexandria Library The Papyri: Evidence of Greek and Egyptian Scientific Interchange The Pinakes -- a Bibliographical Survey of the Alexandria Library The Alexandria Library -- " The Memory of Mankind" Appendix 1 -- The Contents of the Alexandria Library Appendix 2 -- The End of the Library
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1. G. Toomer, "Eudoxus", OCD 3rd ed. (1996); O.Neugebaur, The Exact Sciences in Antiquity, 2nd ed. Dover Pub.,N.Y. (1969) 151. 2. The point has repeatedly been discussed, cf. M.El-Abbadi, Life and Fate of the Library of Alexandria, Paris (1992) 79 ff.; L. Canfora, La bibliotheque d'Alexandrie et l'Histoire des Textes, Cedopal, Universite de Liege (1992) 11 ff. 3. Abdellatif Al-Baghdady, Al-Ifada wa'l I'tibar (Voyage to Egypt) p42; Maqrizi, Topography, apud D. E. Garcia de Herreros, Quatre Voyageurs Espagnols a Alexandrie, p.27 4. On the so-called 'city versions' of Homer, see R. Pfeiffer, History of Classical Scholarship, Oxford (1968) 94, 110,139; P.M. Fraser, Ptolemaic Alexandria, Oxford (1972) I.328, II.483 n.163. 5. W.G. Waddell, Manetho, The Introduction (Loeb). 6. Christian Leblanc, 'Diodor, Le Tombeau d'Osymandyas et la Statuaire du Ramesseum', Melange Gamal-Eddin Mokhtar, ed. Par Paule Posener-Krieger, IFAO, 97, Le Caire (1985) 69-82; S.M. Burstein, 'Hecateus of Abdera's History of Egypt' Life in a Multi-Cultural Society, ed. By J.H. Johnson, Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilizations, no. 51, Chicago, Illinois. (1992) 45-9. 7. Theophrastus, almost a contemporary of the Saite calendar, is known to have visited Egypt and used the same word 'gnomon', in the sense of water-clock: Athen.2.42 b; cf. W. Capelle, 'Theophrast in Aegypten', Wien. Stud. 69 (1956) 173-180 8. J. Cerny, The Origin of the Name of the Month Tybi, Annales du Services des antiques de l'Egypte, 43 (1943) 173-181 9. Luciano Canfora, Il Viaggio di Aristea, Bari, Laterza (1996); A. Pelletier, La Lettre d'Aristee a Philocrate, Source Chretiennes, 89 (1962); cf. V. Tchericover, Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum, I. pp. 30 f. 10. This step was traditionally attributed to Ptolemy II, see Tzetzes, Proleg. p.31 Mb 8 ff. ; for the foundation plates of the Sarapium, A. Rowe, The Discovery of the famous Temple and Enclosure of Sarapis of Alexandria, Cairo (1946) 1-10. 11. Menander, Sycionius, ed. A. Blanchard et A. Botaille, recherches de papyrologie, 3 (1964) 161 L P. Sorb. 2272, col.XXI, p.13; also observe Diogenes Laertius who repeatedly states the total number of lines of an author, e.g. IV.5, Speusippus, 43,475 lines; IV.14 Xenocrates, 224,239 lines, V.27 Aristotle, 445,270; Theophrastos, 232,800 lines. 12. B. M. Pap. 2110 (II A.D.) ed, H. I. Bell in Aegyptus 2 (1921) 281 ff.; Edict. Of Diocl., col. VII, 29-41. 13. R. Pfeiffer, Hist. Class. Schol. 127-133. 14. Frag. No. 447, in R. Pfeiffer, The Pinakes Fragments. 15. P. Oxy. 1367; Athen. 408 E. |