Great Library of Alexandria in Alexandria, Egypt, was one of the largest and most significant libraries of the ancient world. The library was part of a larger...
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Alexandria Library may refer to: Library of Alexandria, one of the largest libraries in ancient history Bibliotheca Alexandrina, a modern library in Alexandria...
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Bibliotheca Alexandrina (redirect from Library of Alexandria (modern))
major library and cultural center on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea in Alexandria, Egypt. It is a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria, once...
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history of Alexandria dates back to the city's founding, by Alexander the Great, in 331 BC. Yet, before that, there were some big port cities just east of Alexandria...
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Alexandria is an independent city in the northern region of the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States. It lies on the western bank of the Potomac River...
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Alexandria (/ˌælɪɡˈzændriə, -ˈzɑːn-/ AL-ig-ZA(H)N-dree-ə; Arabic: الإسكندرية; Greek: Ἀλεξάνδρεια, Coptic: Ⲣⲁⲕⲟϯ - Rakoti or ⲁⲗⲉⲝⲁⲛⲇⲣⲓⲁ) is the second largest...
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Alexandria Library is the public library in Alexandria, Virginia in the United States. In 1794, Alexandria Library opened as a private lending library...
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Eratosthenes (redirect from Eratosthenes of Alexandria)
was a man of learning, becoming the chief librarian at the Library of Alexandria. His work is comparable to what is now known as the study of geography...
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protector of Alexandria, Egypt. There are also signs of Harpocrates. It has been referred to as the daughter of the Library of Alexandria. The site has...
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Hypatia (redirect from Hypathia of Alexandria)
mathematician who lived in Alexandria, Egypt, then part of the Eastern Roman Empire. She was a prominent thinker in Alexandria where she taught philosophy...
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Mouseion (redirect from Musaeum at Alexandria)
Mouseion of Alexandria (Ancient Greek: Μουσεῖον τῆς Ἀλεξανδρείας; Latin: Musaeum Alexandrinum), which arguably included the Library of Alexandria, was an...
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Hero of Alexandria (/ˈhɪəroʊ/; Greek: Ἥρων ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς, Hērōn hò Alexandreús, also known as Heron of Alexandria /ˈhɛrən/; probably 1st or 2nd century...
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Alexandria is browser based cross-platform library automation software used by thousands of libraries around the world, both public libraries and school...
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The Lighthouse of Alexandria, sometimes called the Pharos of Alexandria (/ˈfɛərɒs/ FAIR-oss; Ancient Greek: ὁ Φάρος τῆς Ἀλεξανδρείας, romanized: ho Pháros...
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Classical philology principally originated from the Library of Pergamum and the Library of Alexandria around the fourth century BC, continued by Greeks...
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Ptolemy I Soter (redirect from Ptolemy I of Egypt)
control of Cyprus and Cyrenaica, the latter of which was placed under the control of Ptolemy's stepson Magas. Ptolemy also had the Library of Alexandria built...
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head of a school called the "Mouseion", which was named in emulation of the Hellenistic Mouseion that had once included the Library of Alexandria, but...
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The Alexandria Library sit-in was one of the first staged sit-in actions in the United States, pioneering the use of nonviolent direct action to demand...
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destruction of the Library of Alexandria, the destruction of Library of Nalanda in India and the accidental burning of the Duchess Anna Amalia Library in Weimar...
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Library and information science (LIS) are two interconnected disciplines that deal with the organization, access, collection, and regulation of information...
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Alexandria and studied under Zenodotus, Callimachus, and Dionysius Iambus. He succeeded Eratosthenes as head librarian of the Library of Alexandria at...
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Euclid (redirect from Euclid of Alexandria)
mathematics. Very little is known of Euclid's life, and most information comes from the scholars Proclus and Pappus of Alexandria many centuries later. Medieval...
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Hellenistic period (redirect from History of Hellenistic Greece)
into a centre of culture and science by establishing the Library of Pergamum which was said to be second only to the Library of Alexandria with 200,000...
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of cities, such as Alexandria and Cnidus places of interest to the Ptolemies, whom he served as a scholar and librarian at the Library of Alexandria....
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the copies would be returned to the owner, the library keeping the original. The Library of Alexandria was damaged by various disasters over time, including...
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at the time of unearthing the archive, the manuscripts' alphabet was entirely unknown to that ordinary people. The Library of Alexandria, in Egypt, was...
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Catherine of Alexandria, also spelled Katherine (Greek: Αίκατερίνη) is, according to tradition, a Christian saint and virgin, who was martyred in the...
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Ptolemaic Kingdom (redirect from Ptolemaic Period of Egypt)
Retrieved 19 October 2019. Phillips, Heather A., "The Great Library of Alexandria?". Library Philosophy and Practice, August 2010 Archived 2012-04-18 at...
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prominent and famous libraries of antiquity and became a major library in the Western World upon the destruction of the Library of Alexandria in the 3rd century...
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text to mention the Library of Alexandria. Josephus, who paraphrases about two-fifths of the letter, ascribes it to Aristeas of Marmora and to have been...
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