The Ancient Library of Alexandria

I have tried to update my info on the ancient Library of Alexandria for my Philo Resource page. Some links had become outdated, while some new was found on the Internet.
The library is somewhat of an enigma; we do not have much 'hard facts' to work with, and especially the socalled 'burning' of the library seems hard to assess.The lack of real archaeological remains, as well as the variety of the descriptions in written sources make the case for the history of the library very difficult.
The main material I found published on the Internet about the ancient library (and some links about the new) are now listed on my webpage.
There you can find, inter alia, a course paper from 1965 by Ellen N. Brundage, a greater site by Matthew Collins (no further info on him available..), and some more popular pages. The most scholarly and critical paper found is propably the short paper by Uwe Jochum on The Alexandrian Library and its aftermath. Well worth reading.

The flourishing of cultural and economic life i Alexandria, and the scholary activities of both Philo, his predecessors and successors, make it most likely that Libraries played an important role in the city. Considering the lack of knowledge about ancient bookstores from this times, make the existence of libraries even more important. Living in the age of the Internet, I do think we can hardly imagine what it meant 2000 years ago ....