The Real History of the Library of Alexandria
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- Did you know that the Library of Alexandria didn’t fall like most people think? This video is all about the Great Library of Alexandria, how it worked, and how its fall did not, actually, set human knowledge back thousands of years.
The Library of Alexandria was established under the Ptolemaic Dynasty of Egypt (323-30 BCE) and flourished under the patronage of the early kings to become the most famous library of the ancient world, attracting scholars from around the Mediterranean, and making Alexandria the preeminent intellectual center of its time until its decline after 145 BCE.
Alexandria may have been able to boast of the greatest library in the ancient world under the early Ptolemies, but no account from antiquity supports the claim that the library was still a great intellectual center by the Roman Period. It is clear, from references in the works of various ancient writers, that a considerable number of manuscripts were lost at Alexandria between c. 48 BCE and 415 CE, but what these were is unknown. Many of the works referenced as part of the library's collection still exist today all over the world and form part of the collection of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina ("Library of Alexandria"), which opened in 2002 in Alexandria, Egypt, as an homage to the great library of antiquity.
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0:00 Introduction
0:46 The Library of Alexandria
2:25 The Establishment of the Library
3:50 Head Librarians of the Library
5:28 Organisation & Acquisitions
7:30 Decline & Fall of the Great Library
10:45 Survival of the Library's Collection
12:42 Outro
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Library of Alexandria
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What happened to the Great Library at Alexandria?
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Alexandria, Egypt
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Hypatia of Alexandria
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A Weekend in Alexandria, Egyptwww.worldhistory.org/article/...
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Why do you feel the myths surrounding the fall of the Library of Alexandria are repeated?
It signifies the loss as a hole in war.
Thank you. This makes everything fit the world's knowledge much better. Like all myths it allow one to dream of things that may have been missed. I love it.
Thanks, Jack! We're glad that you enjoyed it. 🙂
Interesting. A most thorough summary of this library's history.
Thank you! We're so glad that you enjoyed our video.
I love your videos, keep up your good work!
As a student of history, I find your videos as an addition to my faculty course :)
Still brings a tear to my eye.
Us too. 😔
So many things here not supported by scholarship: there is no record of the number of books in the Library but estimates by scholars say the number was probably near 40,000 not 500,000. There is no record of ships in Alexandria being searched by the Ptolemaic goverment. At the time of the Library, books were in the form of rolled up scrolls of papyrus. Bound books were not used until many centuries later.
Your videos are great! I'm in love with Greek mythology! And I enjoy watching these videos so much, also, this video really helped me learn more about the Library of Alexandria! I did not know half of this! ❤️
This completely new for me, so thanks, always want to learn new info. keep up the good work
Thanks! We're so glad that you learnt something new. 🙂
btw, does world history encyclopedia have content associated with the sea peoples?
We have this article: worldhistory.org/Sea_Peoples/
how long did the library of pergamon, its rival, last?
I believe it's easier to divide history's periods and explaining them by isolated facts, that cause changes, then it is telling the details. Would the Cause and effect law of positivism be the basis for historical narratives in the XIX century?
Thanks!
Thank you so much for your support, Rob! 😊
Well done Kelly but Myth is not a word for "lies" or "missinformed" para-myth is that, myth has truth inside and is true! And Argonauts original story was written by Orpheus. Apollonious Rodius had many problems by the ancients that time when he rewrote Argonauts.
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I wonder how many great places of learning in the past got destroyed
library of alexandria, the abbasid house of wisdom, ....
Way too many we fear. 😔
Interesting perspective. The edict of Theodosius to end the Olympics & all gymnasia, close all universities & athenæums, and end all ethnic-pagan worship, etc., surely directly contributed to the end of the library, whatever it was at the time. The murder of Hypatia is certainly a symbolic end. Whoever “resurrected” the library thereafter, the Muslim invasion must've been the final nail in the coffin.
Alexanderia still has its great library
Positively sad that it was burned down or destroyed
It will forever be a horrible event. 😔
Brilliant & 😻😍
Thank you so much! 😊
Unburning Alexandria:
How the Survival of the Great Library Could Have Changed the World
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Declining library popularity just doesn't quite have the same razzmatazz.
Cosmos was wRoNg 😝 Sorry Carl-ie