Week 4 Overview

Fate of the Great Library & Museion

• The Sad End of Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
• Museion & Museums.

Tuesday 10/17

The Sad End of Bibliotheca Alexandrina.

Before Class:

Readings:

• The Rise and Fall of Alexandria,11 “The Last Pharaoh”, pp.142-152 (Ecopy pp.164-173).
• Tradition's Destruction: On the Library of Alexandria Tradition's Destruction: On the Library of Alexandria on JSTOR Links to an external site. pp.147-151.
• “The Destruction of the Library of Alexandria: An Archaeological Viewpoint” by Jean-Yves Empereur. In What Happened to the Ancient Library of Alexandria? Mostafa El-Abbadi, Omnia Fathallah, and Ismail Serageldin, pp.75-88. ProQuest Ebook Central - Reader Links to an external site. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/seattleu/reader.action?docID=682214

• Suggested Reading:

  • “Earth, Wind, And Fire: the Alexandrian Firestorm of 48 B.C” by William J. Cherf. In What Happened to the Ancient Library of Alexandria? Mostafa El-Abbadi, Omnia Fathallah, and Ismail Serageldin, pp.55-73.

  ProQuest Ebook Central - Reader Links to an external site.

  https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/seattleu/reader.action?docID=682214 Links to an external site.

During Class:

• Lecture and PowerPoint slideshow.
• Seminar & discussions.
• Individual/group activities.

After Class:

• Prepare readings for the next class.
• Questions for the coming class:
• 1- What is a “Museum”?
• 2- What is the difference between Museion and Musaeum?
• 3- What are “Museology” and “Museography”?

Thursday 10/19

Museion & Museums

Before Class:

Readings:

• Return to Alexandria: An Ethnography of Cultural Heritage Revivalism and Museum Memory by Beverley Butler. Ch.1 “The ‘Alexandria Project’ in the Western Imagination”. pp38-41. ProQuest Ebook Central - Reader Links to an external site.
• Links to an external site.Return to Alexandria: an ethnography of cultural heritage, revivalism, and Museum Memory - Seattle University Links to an external site.
• The Musaeum of Alexandria and the Formation of the Muséum in Eighteenth-Century France: The Musaeum of Alexandria and the Formation of the Muséum in Eighteenth-Century France on JSTOR Links to an external site.
• Britannica Academic “Museum”: Etymology, From Mouseion to Museum, Museology and Museography museum -- Britannica Academic (seattleu.edu) Links to an external site.

  During Class:

  • British Museum Links to an external site.
  • Louvre Museum Official Website Links to an external site.
  • Welcome | Ashmolean Museum Links to an external site.
  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art (metmuseum.org) Links to an external site.
  • Lecture and PowerPoint slideshow.
  • Seminar & discussions.
  • Individual/group activities.

After Class:

• The next class is a paper conference.
• Review the papers (Short Paper (1).
• Prepare points to be discussed in class.
• Main points of the argument and results of your paper.

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