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2. The Library possessed, by far, the most advanced collection of technological knowledge in the world at the time of its burning. 3. That no other similar institutions existed. So, those are the premises, and this is the conclusion: "The burning of the Great Library of Alexandria set humanity back 1000 years."
Tulius this wasnt the prime Q of my topic, but digression in post 17, so not of any relevance, argument that is just filling the lines not supporting them ... Well that side topic seems now dry. established paradigms should be always questioned, does skepticism is not prime scientific...
Or because the library was caught in an unrelated fire? yeah? just like this - 'unrelated'? then why history is overwritten all the time? why its faked? This is like saying that all plane crashes are because someone wants to assassinate and silence someone else. most plane crashes are an act...
@DiocletianIsBetterThanYou did You grasp the complex mentioning in the footnote right above Your post? @Olleus I am adding mine presumption that the motives were from other nature, Plutarch said its because battle strategy [1] That source *specifically* says that the fire was not deliberately...
its obvious that the Library was intentionally set on fire, the question is why!? I think the main reason was not envy of Gaius Julius on Marc Antony, but caesars fear that such amount of free knowledge would be burden for the slavery prone roman society!? this assumption is also more logical if...
The Library of Alexandria is thought to have burned down three times times as far as I know. Claims and estimates range form 400,000 to 60,000. The first fire is claimed to have been [accidently] destroyed in 48 bce by Julius Caesar. "Some regard the death of Hypatia as the final destruction of the Library.
Divine ancestry and personal divinity are indeed two different things. Take the example of the Macedonian kings. The Argead dynasty claimed descent from Heracles, and by extension Zeus, and the Molossian dynasty of which Alexander's mother Olympias was a part claimed descent from Achilles...
Forty thousand books were burned at Alexandria; let someone else praise this library as the most noble monument to the wealth of kings, as did Titus Livius, who says that it was the most distinguished achievement of the good taste and solicitude of kings.
7,316 Posts | 328+. Oct 27, 2012. #20. The greatest lost of the library of Alexandria was not technological, since whatever lost knowledge we have probably recovered and surpassed, but cultural. Of the works of the famous Greek playwrights, we have only a fraction of their works.
What impact did the burning of the Great Library of Alexandria have on history? All those philosophical and scientific ideas burned away. Was the burning of that library the equivalent of burning down the whole internet today?