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| Author | : Gordon Donnell |
| Publisher | : iUniverse |
| Total Pages | : 185 |
| Release | : 2010-03-29 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1450214274 |
Owen Doran is a harmless dreamer drfiting through life when a chance encounter alerts him to the existence of a hundred rolls of parchment looting in ancient times from the storied Library at Alexandria. Through the centuries they have been guarded by a cutthroat monastic order that dealt swiftly and ruthlessly with anyone who coveted them. Times have changed. The Scrolls are worth a fortune on the black market. Political intrigue and violence swirl in the lawless mountains where they are held, a land where death is valued above dishonor. Mass murder is business as usual. When the last bullet is fired and the last cannister of nerve gas let loose, there may be no winners.
| Author | : Michael Livingston |
| Publisher | : Tor Books |
| Total Pages | : 416 |
| Release | : 2015-11-10 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1466873310 |
Michael Livingston's The Shards of Heaven reveals the hidden magic behind the history we know, and commences a war greater than any mere mortal battle Julius Caesar is dead, assassinated on the senate floor, and the glory that is Rome has been torn in two. Octavian, Caesar's ambitious great-nephew and adopted son, vies with Marc Antony and Cleopatra for control of Caesar's legacy. As civil war rages from Rome to Alexandria, and vast armies and navies battle for supremacy, a secret conflict may shape the course of history. Juba, Numidian prince and adopted brother of Octavian, has embarked on a ruthless quest for the Shards of Heaven, lost treasures said to possess the very power of the gods-or the one God. Driven by vengeance, Juba has already attained the fabled Trident of Poseidon, which may also be the staff once wielded by Moses. Now he will stop at nothing to obtain the other Shards, even if it means burning the entire world to the ground. Caught up in these cataclysmic events, and the hunt for the Shards, are a pair of exiled Roman legionnaires, a Greek librarian of uncertain loyalties, assassins, spies, slaves . . . and the ten-year-old daughter of Cleopatra herself. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
| Author | : Lionel Casson |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 191 |
| Release | : 2001-01-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0300088094 |
The unexpected murder in the little Cotswolds town of Colombury has everyone guessing. Before the answers are found more lives are threatened.
| Author | : Roy MacLeod |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 209 |
| Release | : 2005-01-14 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0857714384 |
The Library of Alexandria was one of the greatest cultural adornments of the late ancient world, containing thousands of scrolls of Greek, Hebrew and Mesopotamian literature and art and artefacts of ancient Egypt. This book demonstrates that Alexandria became - through the contemporary reputation of its library - a point of confluence for Greek, Roman, Jewish and Syrian culture that drew scholars and statesmen from throughout the ancient world. It also explores the histories of Alexander the Great and of Alexandria itself, the greatest city of the ancient world. This new paperback edition offers general readers an accessible introduction to the history of this magnificent yet still mysterious institution from the time of its foundation up to its tragic destruction.
| Author | : Lindsey Davis |
| Publisher | : Minotaur Books |
| Total Pages | : 353 |
| Release | : 2009-05-12 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1429986778 |
In first century A.D. Rome, during the reign of Vespasian, Marcus Didius Falco works as a private "informer," often for the emperor, ferreting out hidden truths and bringing villains to ground. But even informers take vacations with their wives, so in A.D. 77, Falco and his wife, Helena Justina, with others in tow, travel to Alexandria, Egypt. But they aren't there long before Falco finds himself in the midst of nefarious doings—when the Librarian of the great library is found dead, under suspicious circumstances. Falco quickly finds himself on the trail of dodgy doings, malfeasance, deadly professional rivalry, more bodies and the lowest of the low—book thieves! As the bodies pile up, it's up to Falco to untangle this horrible mess and restore order to a disordered universe.
| Author | : Jason König |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 501 |
| Release | : 2013-04-25 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107244587 |
The circulation of books was the motor of classical civilization. However, books were both expensive and rare, and so libraries - private and public, royal and civic - played key roles in articulating intellectual life. This collection, written by an international team of scholars, presents a fundamental reassessment of how ancient libraries came into being, how they were organized and how they were used. Drawing on papyrology and archaeology, and on accounts written by those who read and wrote in them, it presents new research on reading cultures, on book collecting and on the origins of monumental library buildings. Many of the traditional stories told about ancient libraries are challenged. Few were really enormous, none were designed as research centres, and occasional conflagrations do not explain the loss of most ancient texts. But the central place of libraries in Greco-Roman culture emerges more clearly than ever.
| Author | : Justin Pollard |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 356 |
| Release | : 2007-10-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780143112518 |
A short history of nearly everything classical. The foundations of the modern world were laid in Alexandria of Egypt at the turn of the first millennium. In this compulsively readable narrative, Justin Pollard and Howard Reid bring one of history's most fascinating and prolific cities to life, creating a treasure trove of our intellectual and cultural origins. Famous for its lighthouse, its library-the greatest in antiquity-and its fertile intellectual and spiritual life--it was here that Christianity and Islam came to prominence as world religions--Alexandria now takes its rightful place alongside Greece and Rome as a titan of the ancient world. Sparkling with fresh insights on science, philosophy, culture, and invention, this is an irresistible, eye- opening delight.
| Author | : Luciano Canfora |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 220 |
| Release | : 1990-08-29 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780520072558 |
Recreates the world of ancient Egypt, describes how the Library of Alexandria was created, and speculates on its destruction.
| Author | : Alex Archer |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
| Total Pages | : 291 |
| Release | : 2014-02-28 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1472085868 |
Ancient papyrus scrolls recovered among the charred ruins of the Library of Alexandria reveal astonishing texts that detail the wonders of Atlantis–knowledge that could shatter the blueprint of world energy.
| Author | : Matthew Battles |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2011-02-07 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0393078620 |
"Splendidly articulate, informative and provoking....A book to be savored and gone back to."—Baltimore Sun On the survival and destruction of knowledge, from Alexandria to the Internet. Through the ages, libraries have not only accumulated and preserved but also shaped, inspired, and obliterated knowledge. Matthew Battles, a rare books librarian and a gifted narrator, takes us on a spirited foray from Boston to Baghdad, from classical scriptoria to medieval monasteries, from the Vatican to the British Library, from socialist reading rooms and rural home libraries to the Information Age. He explores how libraries are built and how they are destroyed, from the decay of the great Alexandrian library to scroll burnings in ancient China to the destruction of Aztec books by the Spanish—and in our own time, the burning of libraries in Europe and Bosnia. Encyclopedic in its breadth and novelistic in its telling, this volume will occupy a treasured place on the bookshelf next to Baker's Double Fold, Basbanes's A Gentle Madness, Manguel's A History of Reading, and Winchester's The Professor and the Madman.
