Ancient Greece & Rome

Explore history's most spectacular library! Nine- to 12-year-olds will be mesmerized by this extensively researched, beautifully illustrated book about largest library of its time and a major center for learning and scholarly research, particularly in the fields of astronomy, geography, mathematics, and medicine. Caesar and Cleopatra, Erastosthenes and Euclid, Archimedes and Alexander the Great are just a few of the famous people connected to its story. People not only read, but they also gazed at the stars, dissected corpses to learn anatomy, calculated the size of the earth, and changed the course of history with their ideas at the Library of Alexandria. Today, historians still argue about how the library was destroyed, and no one knows exactly what it looked like, yet there is no question that the library continues to fascinate and intrigue us.