{
  "title": "Ancient and medieval accounts of the Library of Alexandria's losses",
  "description": "Ancient and medieval accounts of the Library of Alexandria's losses: one row per account, with the passage, the writer's dates where on file, the count of burned books and what burned, each per the text. Years are signed (negative = BC); gaps count calendar years with no year zero. Short quotations are from the editions named in each row; Latin phrases are translated by From the Surviving Record.",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "creator": "From the Surviving Record",
  "page": "https://fromthesurvivingrecord.com/vanished-texts/library-of-alexandria/",
  "derived_from": [
    "Passages named in each row (Loeb translations, H. B. Foster's 1905 translation of Dio, Latin texts)",
    "Gibbon, Decline and Fall ch. 28 and 51 with the 1845 notes; Catholic Encyclopedia, \"The Alexandrian Library\" (1907) for the 47 BC date; \"Paulus Orosius\" (1911) for the 418 completion of Orosius's history",
    "Birth and death years: Project Gutenberg catalogue author records"
  ],
  "method": "Compiled by From the Surviving Record from the data listed",
  "data_credit": [
    "Julius Caesar, Civil War 3.111, trans. A. G. Peskett (Loeb, 1914), retrieved 2026-10-07, public domain in the US, short quotation",
    "Strabo, Geography 17.1.8, trans. H. L. Jones (Loeb, 1932), retrieved 2026-10-07, public domain",
    "Seneca, De Tranquillitate Animi 9.5, Latin text, retrieved 2026-11-01, public domain",
    "Plutarch, Life of Caesar 49, trans. B. Perrin (Loeb, 1919), retrieved 2026-10-07, public domain",
    "Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights 7.17, trans. J. C. Rolfe (Loeb, 1927), retrieved 2026-10-07, public domain",
    "Cassius Dio, Roman History 42.38, trans. H. B. Foster, Dio's Rome, vol. 2 (1905), retrieved 2026-11-01, public domain",
    "Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 22.16, trans. J. C. Rolfe (Loeb, 1940), and Latin text, retrieved 2026-11-01, public domain",
    "Orosius, Historiae adversus paganos 6.15, Latin text, retrieved 2026-11-01, public domain",
    "Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ch. 28, with notes by H. H. Milman (1845), retrieved 2026-11-01, public domain",
    "Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ch. 51, with notes by H. H. Milman (1845), retrieved 2026-11-01, public domain",
    "George Bolling, \"The Alexandrian Library,\" Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 1 (1907), retrieved 2026-11-01, facts only, paraphrased",
    "Project Gutenberg catalogue author records (birth and death years), retrieved 2026-11-01, factual data",
    "Johann Peter Kirsch, \"Paulus Orosius,\" Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 11 (1911), retrieved 2026-11-01, public domain"
  ]
}