Book of Donmon Teith

The Library of Alexandria was one of the greatest cultural adornments of the late ancient world, containing thousands of scrolls of Greek, Hebrew and Mesopotami

Recreates the world of ancient Egypt, describes how the Library of Alexandria was created, and speculates on its destruction.

"a stirring account...performs a worthy task in bringing a fabled institution of learning up from the footnotes." KIRKUS REVIEWS Kirkus Reviews "It's hard to fi

The circulation of books was the motor of classical civilization. But books were both expensive and rare, and so libraries - private and public, royal and civic

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