On the Burning of Books by Kenneth Baker
Author:Kenneth Baker [Kenneth Baker]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781910787113
Publisher: Unicorn Publishing Group
Published: 2017-11-15T00:00:00+00:00
Christian persecution in Josephâs Colony, Lahore.
THE LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA
49BC, AD297 and AD642
The Library of Alexandria was founded in 300BC during the reigns of Ptolemy I and Ptolemy II, also known as Ptolemaeus Philadelphus, who were advised by a Greek, Demetrius Pholemis. It became a cultural centre for a community of poets, scholars, grammarians and historians who amassed a huge collection of manuscripts in Greek, Latin and Hebrew, including seventy-nine works by Aeschylus, 120 by Sophocles and ninety-nine by Euripides. An early catalogue ran to over 120 volumes. But it was a library beset and eventually ruined by a series of disasters and invasions. During the Egyptian civil war in 48BC, in which Julius Caesar supported Cleopatra, the two armies met in Alexandria, where Caesar launched an incendiary attack on the Egyptian fleet in the harbour and the flames spread to the library, destroying 40,000 books â a disaster.
Artistâs impression of the ancient library of Alexandria.
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