Serapis : the sacred library and its declericalization /
The Greco-Egyptian syncretistic god Serapis was used by the 3rd century BCE Ptolemaic pharaohs to impose Greek cultural hegemony and consolidate political power. The Alexandrian Serapeum, sometimes referred to as The Great Library of Alexandria's "daughter library," may be seen as an...
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Sacramento, CA :
Library Juice Press,
2022.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The Sacred Library
- Information Institutions from the Dawn of History through the Early Iron Age
- Information Institutions from Greece through the Medieval Period
- The Early University Libraries, Modernity, and the Move Towards the Secular
- Serapis and the Serapeum as Metaphors
- Religious Ideology, Symbolism, and the Serapian MCAL
- The "Cosmic" Serapian MCAL: Its Crypto-religious Symbolism
- The Kynical Academic Library Worker.