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Ancient writers said the fire spread and destroyed part of the Library's collections; [8] the Library seems to have partially survived or been quickly rebuilt. [ 8 ] In 48 BC, during Caesar's Civil War , Julius Caesar was besieged at Alexandria .
The Burning of the Library of Alexandria. By Preston Chesser. The loss of the ancient world's single greatest archive of knowledge, the Library of Alexandria, has been lamented for ages. But how and why it was lost is still a mystery.
1 lut 2011 · The infamous destruction by fire of the Library of Alexandria, with the consequent loss of the most complete collection of ancient literature ever assembled, has been a point of heated debate for centuries.
4 dni temu · For centuries the main point of contention was whether or not the library (or libraries—as two sites existed) survived until the Arab conquest of Alexandria in the 7th century. In the 21st century, however, the topic has cooled down, and there is growing agreement among serious scholars that both libraries had both perished long before the ...
17 lis 2020 · November 17, 2020 4:30 PM EST. T he opening episode of Carl Sagan ’s TV series Cosmos, first shown in 1980, lamented the most famous burning of books in history—the conflagration that...
By the time the Library itself — or at least part of it — was burned down by Julius Caesar in 48 B.C., it had been falling into disuse for quite some time. “It is sometimes said that the destruction of the Library of Alexandria set civilization back by centuries,” Ryan tells us.
4 dni temu · Library of Alexandria, the most famous library of Classical antiquity. It formed part of the research institute at Alexandria in Egypt that is known as the Alexandrian Museum. The library was named after Alexander the Great, who initiated the collection of documents in 334 BCE.
