Cleopatra’s Books
Mary Beard, 8 February 1990
The Vanished Library: A Wonder of the Ancient World
by Luciano Canfora, translated by Martin Ryle.
Radius, 205 pp., £14.95, November 1989,0 09 174049 5 Show More
by Luciano Canfora, translated by Martin Ryle.
Radius, 205 pp., £14.95, November 1989,
“... in Romania should, as reported, include the dramatic burning of the Bucharest University Library. Luciano Canfora’s Vanished Library raises just these themes in relation to the greatest library of the Classical world, the library of Alexandria. His narrative is deceptively simple. In a series of short chapters, some little more than a single ... ”
