(BQ) Part 1 book “The vanished library” has contents: The pharaoh''s tomb, the sacred library, the forbidden city, the fugitive, the universal library, i leave my books to neleus, the symposium, in the cage of the muses, the rival library, reappearance and disappearance of Aristotle,… and other contents.
e from Alexandria) IX The Rival Library: Galen, Commentary on Hippocrates, XV, Kuhn pp 105-1°7 (production of forgeries stimulated by the rivalry between Pergamum and Alexandria); final additional text below the speech On Halonnesus in Paris Greek codex 2934 (folio 29r) (where it is stated that the edition of Demosthenes originating in Pergamum comprised six speeches in each scroll); note added to col 15 in papyrus Berlin inv 9780 (Didymus's Commentary) (where it is stated that the Alexandrian edition of Demosthenes comprised three or at most four speeches to each scroll); ibid., col II, Ioff (the revelation that the eleventh Philippic attributed to Demosthenes was in fact found in the seventh book of the Philippika of Anaximene~ of Lampsacus); Didymus, apud Marcellinus, Life of Thurydides, I -34 (on Zopyrus and Cratippus); Galen, Commentary on the third book ofthe 'Epidemics', 11,4 (the claim that Ptolemy Euergetes played a trick on the Athenians); John of Lydia, De 1°3 The Vanished Library mensibus, I, 28 (ban on the export of papyrus aimed against Pergamum); Hermogenes, in Spengel, Rhetores Graeci, II, pp 35 28 354· (passages struck out of Demosthenes' Crown); Iliad, XVIII, 483, scholium by Aristonicus (Zenodotus's condemnation of the entire description of Achilles' arms as inauthentic); Iliad, XI, 40, scholium T (allegorical interpretation of Achilles' shield, advanced by Crates of Mallus) X Reappearance and Disappearance of Aristotle: Posidonius, Jacoby fragment 36 (Athenion's career and his relationship with Apellicon); Plutarch, Life ofSulla, 26 (Tyrannion and Andronicus grappling with the Aristotelian texts); Strabo, XIII, I, 54 (Tyrannion gains temporary possession of Apellicon's scrolls); Seneca, De tranquillitate animi, 9, (bibliophilia among the rich at Rome); Cicero, Ad A tticum, IV, 10 (April, 55 BC) (letter to Atticus from Faustus's library) XI The Second Visitor: Diodorus Siculus, I, 83, B (summary execution of the Roman who killed the cat); Strabo, XVII, I, (profanation of Alexander's tomb by Ptolemy 'the clandestine'); Suetonius, Life of Caesar, 54, (Caesar given six thousand talents by Ptolemy); Polybius, XII, 27 (historians who work from books in libraries); Diodorus, I, 4, (his fabricated voyages) and XVII, 52 (the riches of Alexandria); Pliny, Naturalis Historia, Pref., 25 (praise of Diodorus for the frankness of his chosen title); Aphthonius, Progymnasmata, 12 (Walz p 107); Diodorus, I, 46, (plan of the Ramesseum taken from Hecataeus) XII War: Plutarch, Life of Caesar, 49 (Caesar's visit to Alexandria, and the outbreak of conflict following the unsuccessful plot in the palace); Lucan, Bellum civile, X, 439-454 (Caesar hemmed in in the royal palace at Alexandria); Dion Cassius, XLII, 38, (Roman deserters in Ptolemy's army); Lucan, X, 486-505 (Caesar, from the palace above, 1°4 References sets fire to the ships); Dion Cassius, XLII, 38, (the fire takes hold of the 'depots ofgrain and books'); Orosius, VI, 15,31 (the books that were burned lay in the port area 'by chance'); Caesar, Bellum civile, III, I I I (the burning of the ships); Bellum Alexandn"num, I (highly fire-resistant properties of the building materials used at Alexandria) XIII The Third Visitor: Plutarch, Life ofAntony, 58 and 59 (Calvisius insinuates that Antony planned to take books from Pergamum to Alexandria); Suetonius, Life of Caesar, 35, I (Caesar's reluctance to make Egypt a province of the Empire); Dessau, lnscriptiones Latinae Seleaae 8995 (the Elephantina inscription); Strabo, XVII, I, 46 (Strabo comes to Egypt with Aelius Gallus), XVII, I, 45 (the Indian snake presented to Augustus) and XVII, I, (his discussion of the flow of the Nile and the texts he consulted on the question); Diodorus, I, 38-41 (Agatharchides' theories on the matter); Seneca, Epistulae ad Lucilium, 88, 37 (Didymus's works amount to four thousand scrolls); Pliny, Naturalis Historia, Pref., 25 (Tiberius's admiration of Apion the grammarian); Strabo, I, 2, 31 (Aristonicus of Alexandria); Photius, Bibliotheca, 161, p 104b 40-41 (Aristonicus's treatise on the Alexandrian Museum); Strabo, XVII, I, (description of the Alexandrian Museum) XIV The Library: Diodorus, I, 47-49 xv The Fire: Aphthonius, Progymnasmata, Serapeum) 12 (Walz p 107) (plan of the XVI The Dialogue of John Philoponus with the Emir: Amrou's letter to the Caliph is cited in Eutychius's Annals (II, Pococke's ed p 16) The basis of the dialogue between John and Amrou will be found in 1°5 The Vanished Library Ibn al-Kifti's book Ta'rikh al-Hukama ('Chronicle of wise men') The texts invoked during the discussion of the fire supposed to have taken place during the Alexandrian war of Caesar are those cited above, in the note on Chapter XII, and also the following: Seneca, De Tranquillitate animi, 9, 5; Ammianus, XXII, 16, 13; Gellius, VII, 17, 3; and (on Caracalla's threat to destroy the Museum and its inhabitants) Dion Cassius, LXXVII, 106 ... Apion the grammarian); Strabo, I, 2, 31 (Aristonicus of Alexandria); Photius, Bibliotheca, 16 1, p 10 4b 40- 41 (Aristonicus's treatise on the Alexandrian Museum); Strabo, XVII, I, (description of the. .. Museum) XIV The Library: Diodorus, I, 47-49 xv The Fire: Aphthonius, Progymnasmata, Serapeum) 12 (Walz p 10 7) (plan of the XVI The Dialogue of John Philoponus with the Emir: Amrou's letter to the Caliph... (the fire takes hold of the 'depots ofgrain and books'); Orosius, VI, 15 , 31 (the books that were burned lay in the port area 'by chance'); Caesar, Bellum civile, III, I I I (the burning of the