The Vanished Library: A Wonder of the Ancient World
The Vanished Library: A Wonder of the Ancient World
University of California Press | 1989 | ISBN: 0520073045, 0520072553 | English | 220 pages | PDF | 16 MB
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 under one roof, and the story of the universal library and its destruction still has the power to move us.