This paper celebrates UNESCO's announcement of the re-establishment of the Alexandrian Library, citing the incentive the project provides to review the history of the famed library of antiquity, of the librarians who served it, and of the scholars who used it. After a brief history of the city of Alexandria, including its founding by Alexander,…

Describes how students flock to the classics department at Macalester College in Minnesota, drawn by archaeological projects and a new approach to studying antiquity. (EV)

Concerns the colors of the spectrum Lucan employs to depict the Roman civil war. (DS)

This collection of historical evidence was intended to help us to understand where and on what occasions and by what kinds of people books of history were written and read. It focuses on ancient Greek and Roman society and particularly on the position of the ancient historian. (Author/RK)

Second part of a series begun in the October 1971 issue of "Classical World". (DS)

A history of classical Greek rhapsodes": reciters and interpreters of Homeric epics. (RD)

This biographical dictionary contains over 200 entries on Greek and Roman rhetoricians. The compilation omits persons who were exclusively performers or composers unless they were also theorists, critics, authors of treatises or textbooks, or teachers of speech. Bibliographical notes are attached to particular biographies rarely and only for…

Transcript of an hour-long television program taped at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (DS)