The Vanished Library: A Wonder of the Ancient World (Hellenistic Culture and Society)
Canfora, Luciano; Ryle, Martin [Translator]
Language: English
Published by University of California Press, 1990
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- Title
- The Vanished Library: A Wonder of the Ancient World (Hellenistic Culture and Society)
- Author
- Canfora, Luciano; Ryle, Martin [Translator]
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Publication year
- 1990
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0520072553
- ISBN 13
- 9780520072558
- Dimensions
- 92x12x136
But what was the library, and where was it? Did it exist at all? Contemporary descriptions are vague and contradictory. The fate of the precious books themselves is a subject of endless speculation.
Canfora resolves these puzzles in one of the most unusual books of classical history ever written. He recreates the world of Egypt and the Greeks in brief chapters that marry the craft of the novelist and the discipline of the historian. Anecdotes, conversations, and reconstructions give The Vanished Library the compulsion of an exotic tale, yet Canfora bases all of them on historical and literary sources, which he discusses with great panache. As the chilling conclusion to this elegant piece of historical detective work he establishes who burned the books.
This volume has benefited from the collegial support of The Wake Forest University Studium.
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