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As for the Museum, Mostafa El-Abbadi writes in Life and Fate of the Ancient Library of Alexandria (Paris 1992): “ The Mouseion, being at the same time a 'shrine of the Muses', enjoyed a degree of sanctity as long as other pagan temples remained unmolested. Synesius of Cyrene, who studied under Hypatia at the end of the fourth century, saw the Mouseion and described the images of the philosophers in it. We have no later reference to its existence in the fifth century. As Theon, the distinguished mathematician and father of Hypatia, herself a renowned scholar, was the last recorded scholar-member (c. 380), it is likely that the Mouseion did not long survive the promulgation of Theodosius' decree in 391 to destroy all pagan temples in the city. ” John Julius Norwich, in his work Byzantium: The Early Centuries, places the destruction of the library's collection during the anti-Arian riots in Alexandria that transpired after the imperial decree of 391 (p.314).
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The libary of alexandria was most defenatly the most largest.It carried atlest 1 million of books.You couldent go to a better libary then alexandra.This libary had tones of topics, topics about different ancient egypt things. -
The Roman but on fire the Egyptians Ship somehow but the fire spreded to the city and The Libary of Alexandrian got burn. I say that it was the Roman falt. So...... thats it.
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Julius Caesar accidentally burned the library down when he set fire
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How can you set a libary on fire.First if julius Ceaser set the libary on fire it was on purpose. Julius ceaser should have never have never have done that.
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he didn't see how important that library was to egypt and cleopatra -
julis ceaser had a daughter named julia. he had 3 wifes that all died except for 1. his first wife was julia's mother. but julia died in child birth. -
ceaser burned the librray a very stupid way. he was going to set the boats of egypt on fire. but it was so big it went through most of egypt. it also burned the library.
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As for the Museum, Mostafa El-Abbadi writes in Life and Fate of the Ancient Library of Alexandria (Paris 1992): " The Mouseion, being at the same time a 'shrine of the Muses', enjoyed a degree of sanctity as long as other pagan temples remained unmolested. Synesius of Cyrene, who studied under Hypatia at the end of the fourth century, saw the Mouseion and described the images of the philosophers in it. We have no later reference to its existence in the fifth century. As Theon, the distinguished mathematician and father of Hypatia, herself a renowned scholar, was the last recorded scholar-member (c. 380), it is likely that the Mouseion did not long survive the promulgation of Theodosius' decree in 391 to destroy all pagan temples in the city. " John Julius Norwich, in his work Byzantium: The Early Centuries, places the destruction of the library's collection during the anti-Arian riots in Alexandria that transpired after the imperial decree of 391 (p.314). - ...1 more comment...
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When alexander found alexandria he decided to build a library were everybody was welcome. Cleopatrra Ptolemys daughter loved the library of alexandria. This library was the worlds first learning center. Thats probably how it got its name the great library of alexandria or the anciant library of alexandria.
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they had 1 million books
