The Vanished Library: A Wonder of the Ancient World by Luciano Canfora, Martin Ryle

The Vanished Library: A Wonder of the Ancient World

Luciano Canfora, Martin Ryle

205 pages first pub 1989 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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The Library of Alexandria, one of the wonders of the Ancient World, has haunted Western culture for over 2,000 years. The Ptolemaic kings of Egypt—successors of Alexander the Great—had a staggering ambition: to house all of the books ever written ...

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