Who burned the library and why?
October 10, 2007 8:30 PM   Subscribe

Who burned the Great Library of Alexandria and why? I also wonder...

Who do you think burned the Great Library of Alexandria and why?

I also want your thoughts on: (1) What do you suppose was the greatest document or collection in the library? (2) What do you suppose we citizens of the world would be like -- intellectually, philosophically, religion-wise -- if the library had not burned and, through many generations, we had studied the works therein? (3) Do you think the library's destruction has been inflated; that is, what burned were merely diarists' or travelers' blatherings?
posted by Smalltown Girl to Society & Culture (1 answer total)

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This Wikipedia article says it alot better than I could.

And I know one of the documents it housed was one of the original greek translations of the old testament. Ptolemy himself commissioned it from the Jewish king. (Harrod??)

Also, good luck on your homework assignment.
posted by jlowen at 9:11 PM on October 10, 2007


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