![]() ![]() Its cabinets of papyrus scrolls reputedly contained every book ever written, some half a million separate texts. After writing hugely popular books on the Irish, the Greeks, the Jews and the early Christians, the writer Thomas Cahill has now turned his attention to the Middle Ages, arguing with characteristic passion, as his subtitle proclaims, that there we can find “the rise of feminism, science and art from the cults of Catholic Europe.” He begins his tale, however, with ancient Alexandria, founded by Alexander the Great, guarded by the Pharos lighthouse (one of the Seven Wonders of the World) and, most important, home of the most famous library in the ancient world. ![]()
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