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Are you tired of Pseudohistory and want to know what the Library of Alexandria Actually was and what Really happened to it? Click here to learn what the actual scholarship says.
Today we're going to critically analyze the history of the Great Library of Alexandria using the current Scholarship and Primary sources the reveal the true history of the library of Alexandria as well as dispel many common myths that are associated with the Alexandria library.
With that, here's a quick overview of the historical questions that we are going to analyze.
What was in the library of Alexandria?
Who worked in the library of Alexandria?
How big was the Great Library of Alexandria?
What happened to the library of Alexandria?
What happened to the great library of Alexandria's daughter libraries?
Photo Credits.
Diaa abdelmoneim
Ivo Jansch
Johann Edwin Heupel
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Note: I try to use copyright-free images and stock footage at all times. However, if I have used any of your artwork or video content then please don't hesitate to contact me and I’ll be more than happy to give the appropriate credit.
Mail: inkhistorycontact@gmail.com
Music Credits -
"Desert City" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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Sources.
Diana Delia, “From Romance to Rhetoric: The Alexandrian Library in Classical and Islamic Traditions”, The American Historical Review, Vol. 97, No. 5, Dec. 1992, pp. 1449-67
Roger S. Bagnall, “Alexandria: Library of Dreams”, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 146, No. 4, Dec. 2002, pp. 348-362
Lionel Casson, Libraries of the Ancient World, Yale University Press, 2001
James Hannam, “The Foundation and Loss of the Royal and Serapeum Libraries of Alexandria”, 2011.
Macleod, Roy M (ed) The Library of Alexandria: Centre of Learning in the Ancient World London, 2000
Progymnasmata: Greek Textbooks of Prose Composition and Rhetoric.
(George Kennedy Alexander, 2003).
Eunapius: Lives of the Philosophers and Sophists.
(Translated by Wilmer C. Wright, 1921).
Ammianus Marcellinus. Vol 2.
(Translated by John C. Rolfe, 1935).
britannica.com/biography/Ammianus-Marcellinus
britannica.com/biography/Hipparchus-Greek-astronomer
britannica.com/biography/Archimedes
britannica.com/biography/Euclid-Greek-mathematician
Beyond War and Peace: A Reappraisal of the Encounter between Christianity and Science(Numbers and Lindberg, 1987).
Are you tired of Pseudohistory and want to know what the Library of Alexandria Actually was and what Really happened to it? Click here to learn what the actual scholarship says.
Today we're going to critically analyze the history of the Great Library of Alexandria using the current Scholarship and Primary sources the reveal the true history of the library of Alexandria as well as dispel many common myths that are associated with the Alexandria library.
With that, here's a quick overview of the historical questions that we are going to analyze.
What was in the library of Alexandria?
Who worked in the library of Alexandria?
How big was the Great Library of Alexandria?
What happened to the library of Alexandria?
What happened to the great library of Alexandria's daughter libraries?
Photo Credits.
Diaa abdelmoneim
Ivo Jansch
Johann Edwin Heupel
Stock clips provided free by FreeStockVids.com.
See previews at youtube.com/freestockvids
Note: I try to use copyright-free images and stock footage at all times. However, if I have used any of your artwork or video content then please don't hesitate to contact me and I’ll be more than happy to give the appropriate credit.
Mail: inkhistorycontact@gmail.com
Music Credits -
"Desert City" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
Sources.
Diana Delia, “From Romance to Rhetoric: The Alexandrian Library in Classical and Islamic Traditions”, The American Historical Review, Vol. 97, No. 5, Dec. 1992, pp. 1449-67
Roger S. Bagnall, “Alexandria: Library of Dreams”, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 146, No. 4, Dec. 2002, pp. 348-362
Lionel Casson, Libraries of the Ancient World, Yale University Press, 2001
James Hannam, “The Foundation and Loss of the Royal and Serapeum Libraries of Alexandria”, 2011.
Macleod, Roy M (ed) The Library of Alexandria: Centre of Learning in the Ancient World London, 2000
Progymnasmata: Greek Textbooks of Prose Composition and Rhetoric.
(George Kennedy Alexander, 2003).
Eunapius: Lives of the Philosophers and Sophists.
(Translated by Wilmer C. Wright, 1921).
Ammianus Marcellinus. Vol 2.
(Translated by John C. Rolfe, 1935).
britannica.com/biography/Ammianus-Marcellinus
britannica.com/biography/Hipparchus-Greek-astronomer
britannica.com/biography/Archimedes
britannica.com/biography/Euclid-Greek-mathematician
Beyond War and Peace: A Reappraisal of the Encounter between Christianity and Science(Numbers and Lindberg, 1987).
