Library of Alexandria

One story holds that the Library was seeded with Aristotle's own private collection, through one of his students, Demetrius Phalereus. Another story concerns how its collection grew so large: By decree of Ptolemy III of Egypt, all visitors to the city were required to surrender all books and scrolls in their possession; these writings were then swiftly copied by official scribes. The originals were put into the Library, and the copies were delivered to the previous owners. While encroaching on the rights of the traveler or merchant, it also helped to creat ...

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Library of Alexandria, Library of Alexandria - Overview, Library of Alexandria - Destruction of the pagan temples by Theophilus, Library of Alexandria - Conclusions, Library of Alexandria - Other libraries of the ancient world

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One story holds that the Library was seeded with Aristotle's own private collection, through one of his students, Demetrius Phalereus. Another story concerns how its collection grew so large: By decree of Ptolemy III of Egypt, all visitors to the city were required to surrender all books and scrolls in their possession; these writings were then swiftly copied by official scribes. The originals were put into the Library, and the copies were delivered to the previous owners. While encroaching on the rights of the traveler or merchant, it also helped to creat ...

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Library of Alexandria, Library of Alexandria - Overview, Library of Alexandria - Destruction of the pagan temples by Theophilus, Library of Alexandria - Conclusions, Library of Alexandria - Other libraries of the ancient world, Library of Alexandria - The Library in games

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One story holds that the Library was seeded with Aristotle's own private collection, through one of his students, Demetrius Phalereus. Another story concerns how its collection grew so large: By decree of Ptolemy III of Egypt, all visitors to the city were required to surrender all books and scrolls in their possession; these writings were then swiftly copied by official scribes. The originals were put into the Library, and the copies were delivered to the previous owners. While encroaching on the rights of the traveler or merchant, it also helped to creat ...

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Library of Alexandria, Library of Alexandria - Overview, Library of Alexandria - Destruction of the Great Library, Library of Alexandria - Evidence for the existence of the Library after Caesar, Library of Alexandria - Destruction of the pagan temples by Theophilus, Library of Alexandria - Conclusions, Library of Alexandria - Other libraries of the ancient world, Library of Alexandria - The Library in Modern Fiction

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Hippocrates of Cos (c. 460 BC–c. 380 BC) was an ancient Greek physician. He has been called "the father of medicine", and is commonly regarded as one of the most outstanding figures in medicine of all time. According to the biographical tradition, he was a physician trained at the Dream temple of Cos, and may have been a pupil of Herodicus. Writings attributed to him (Corpus hippocraticum, or "Hippocratic writings") rejected the superstition and magic of primitive "medicine" and laid the foundations of medicine as a branch of ...

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The year 2005 has been named the World Year of Physics in recognition of the 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein's "Miracle Year," in which he published three landmark papers, and the subsequent advances in the field of physics. World Year of Physics 2005 - History. Physics has been the basis for understanding the physical world and nature as a whole. The applications of physics are the basis for much of today's technology. In order to both raise the worldwide awareness of physics and celebrate the major a ...

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The Septuagint (LXX) is the name commonly given in the West to the Koine Greek Alexandrine text of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh/Old Testament) produced some time between the third to first century BC. The Septuagint Bible includes additional books of the old Jewish canon beyond those contained in the Hebrew Bible, including the books of the Maccabees, much beloved and revered by Jews today. These additional books were composed in Greek with small portions in Aramaic, and in most cases only the Greek version has survived to the present. Th ...

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• Septuagint - Language of the Septuagint
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Achilles is a trilogy of plays written by the Greek tragedian Aeschylus. It follows the Greek hero Achilles during the Trojan War, wherein he defeats Hector and eventually gets killed by Paris when an arrow punctures his heel. The play had been known to exist due to the work of Aristophanes and his various mentions of the play. It had long been believed to be lost in the great fire of the Library of Alexandria in 48 BC. However, in the early 1990s sections of the play on papyrus were discovered inside an Egyptian mummy - which, along with ext ...

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Located on the Mediterranean Sea coast, Alexandria (in Arabic, الإسكندرية, transliterated al-ʼIskandariyyah) is the chief seaport in Egypt, and that country's second largest city, and the capital of the Al Iskandariyah governate. It is located at 31°12′N 29°15′E, 208 km (129 miles) northwest of Cairo. The Canopic mouth of the Nile (now dry) was 19 km (12 miles) east, near the ancient city of Canopus ...

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• Alexandria - Founding
• Alexandria - Roman jurisdiction
• Alexandria - After Amr
• Alexandria - The 1800s
• Alexandria - Bombardment of 1882
• Alexandria - Under British control
• Alexandria - Geography
• Alexandria - Layout of the ancient city
• Alexandria - The modern city
• Alexandria - Ancient remains
• Alexandria - Antiquities

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Book burning is the practice of ceremoniously destroying by fire one or more copies of a book or other written material. In modern times other forms of media, such as gramophone records, CDs and video tapes, have also been ceremoniously burned or shredded. The practice, often carried out publicly, is usually motivated by moral, political or religious objections to the material. "Burning books and killing scholars" in 212 BC is count ...

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In the traditional sense of the word, a library is a collection of books and periodicals. It can refer to an individual's private collection, but more often it is a large collection that is funded and maintained by a city or institution. This collection is often used by people who choose not to, or cannot afford to, purchase an extensive collection themselves. However, with the collection or invention of media other than books for storing information, many libraries are now also repositories and access points for maps, prints or other ...

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• Library - Types of libraries
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• Library - Library use
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Hypatia of Alexandria (in Greek: Υπατία) (c. 380 - 415) was a philosopher, mathematician, and teacher who lived in Alexandria, then a Greek city. Several works are attributed to her by later sources, including commentaries on Diophantus's Arithmetica, on Apollonius's Conics and on Ptolemy's works, but none has survived. Letters written to her by her pupil Synesius give an idea of her intellectual milieu. She was of the Platonic school, although her adherence to the writings of Plotinus, the 3rd century follo ...

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Parchment is a material for the pages of a book or codex, made from fine calf skin, sheep skin or goat skin. Cooking parchment paper (see below) is used in baking. Parchment - History. According to the Roman historian Varro, Pliny's Natural History records (xiii.21), it was invented under the patronage of Eumenes of Pergamum, whether Eumenes I (ruled 263–241 BCE) or Eumenes II (ruled 197–160), as a substitute for papyrus, which was temporarily not being exported from Alexandria, its only source.< ...

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48 BC - Events. Roman Civil War: January 4, Caesar landed at Dyrrhachium (Durazzo) March, Antony joined Caesar April, Siege of Dyrrhachium May, Isauricus, co-consul with Julius Caesar, destroys Caelius's magistrate's chair on his tribunal. July 10 - Battle of Dyrrhachium, Julius Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia, he retreats to Thessaly. August 9 - Roman Civil War: Battle of Pharsalus - Julius Caesar decisively defeats Pom ...

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(1st millennium BC – 1st millennium – 2nd millennium – other millennia) 1st millennium - Events. Beginning of Christianity (30s) London founded by Romans as Londinium Diaspora of the Jews (1st century) The Olympic Games observed until 393 The Library of Alexandria, largest library in the world, burned High point, and fall of the Western Roman Empire (5th century) Rise of the Byzantine Empire Germanic kingdoms established in Northern ...

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Interstate 405, The Peugeot 405 was the European Car of the Year 1987. 405 - Births. Ricimer, de facto ruler of the West Roman Empire Salvian, Christian writer (approximate date) 405 - Deaths. November 11 - Arsacius of Tarsus, intruding archbishop of Constantinople Moses the Black, Egyptian monk Theon of Alexandria, last director of the Library of Alexandria See al ...

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The Bibliotheca Alexandrina is a major library and cultural center located on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea in the Egyptian city of Alexandria. It is both a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity and an attempt to rekindle something of the brilliance that this earlier center of study and erudition represented. The idea of reviving the old library dates back to 1974, when a committee set up by the University of Alexandria selected a plot of land for its new library, between the campus and the ...

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Theories about the mob violence that ended Hypatia's life range from a local, spontaneous Christian uprising tolerated by the Christian Patriarch Cyril of Alexandria over a conflict between Cyril and the more tolerant prefect Orestes; to a conspiracy supported by the Emperor himself; to a lawless, civilian "peasant stock" mob (soldiers are never mentioned) made up of superstitious Christians and non-Christians alike led by the charismatic zealot "Peter." Another point of view holds that Hypatia was part of a rebellion and her murder unfortun ...

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Hypatia of Alexandria, Hypatia of Alexandria - Hypatia's death, Hypatia of Alexandria - Year of birth

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