{
  "title": "Library of Alexandria: registry card",
  "description": "Registry card values for the Library of Alexandria entry, with the source of each value.",
  "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": [
    "Sources named in the source column of each row"
  ],
  "method": "Compiled by From the Surviving Record from the data listed",
  "data_credit": [
    "Strabo, Geography 17.1.8, trans. H. L. Jones (Loeb, 1932), retrieved 2026-10-07, public domain",
    "George Bolling, \"The Alexandrian Library,\" Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 1 (1907), retrieved 2026-11-01, facts only, paraphrased",
    "Herbert Thurston, \"Libraries,\" Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 9 (1910), retrieved 2026-11-01, public domain",
    "Julius Caesar, Civil War 3.111, trans. A. G. Peskett (Loeb, 1914), retrieved 2026-10-07, public domain in the US, short quotation",
    "Plutarch, Life of Caesar 49, trans. B. Perrin (Loeb, 1919), 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",
    "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",
    "Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 4.184, trans. C. B. Gulick (Loeb, 1928), retrieved 2026-10-07, cited for a fact only",
    "Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 22.16, trans. J. C. Rolfe (Loeb, 1940), and Latin text, retrieved 2026-11-01, public domain",
    "Socrates of Constantinople, Church History 5.16, trans. A. C. Zenos (1890), retrieved 2026-11-01, public domain"
  ]
}