The Shores of Wisdom

Description

Two and a half thousand years ago, the world’s first great library and international cultural centre was created at Alexandria by the Pharoah Ptolemy I Soter, and for more than six centuries it was to be the focal point of Mediterranean learning. This book tells the story of this famous library and mouseion of Ptolemaic Alexandria and of how it influenced Western thought as much as, if not more than Plato’s Academy and Aristotle’s Lyceum at Athens.