The Ancient Library of Alexandria not only served for centuries as a leading institution
for accumulating and disseminating the works of the great scholars of antiquity, but was also the world's first major culture centre. THE SHORES OF WISDOM recounts the history of the Library, its creation, its influence on Western thought, and the men and women whose fame lent lustre to the Library over the 900 years of it's existence.
THE SHORES OF WISDOM gives us the fascinating story of the great Library of Alexandria, created by Egypt's first Greek Pharaoh, Ptolemy I Soter, in 195 B.C. and describes, in a series of biographies, the men and women responsible for the Library's fame, such as Demetrius of Phalerum, Euclid, Callimachus, Cleopatra, Aristarchus. Archimedes and Hypatia, to name but a few. At its peak, it contained over half a million scrolls, including major works of scholars like Aristotle, Plato, Sophocles, Aeschylus and Theocritus.
THE SHORES OF WISDOM reads like a captivating historical novel, and has been written so that the general public can have an idea of what the world's first centre of culture was like, and how it influenced Western thought and culture right up to modern times.
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