Why the Myth of the Library of Alexandria Is Wrong

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👒🔎 Download June’s Journey for free now using my link: https://wooga-junes-journey.onelink.me/M4rK/de6f3d47?c=jj_us_youtube_kazrowe_jan23_proseeders We've all heard about how the Library of Alexandria held the great knowledge of the ancient world and was burned down, setting us back up to 1000 years due to lost texts. But the truth is, it's a lot more complicated than that, and a lot of facets of this legend don't even add up at all. Come learn with me about the truth about this fantastical myth! Find me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KazRowe I'm on TikTok @ kazrowe Find me on IG: https://www.instagram.com/kaz.rowe Buy my comics: https://gumroad.com/kazrowe Send me a ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/A347K4X Read my webcomic: https://www.cunningfire.com/ Catch it on Tapas: https://tapas.io/series/cunning-fire Line Webtoons: https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/cunning-fire/list?title_no=59016 Filmed using: Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4k– https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/blackmagicpocketcinemacamera Blackmagic Video Assist 5” HDR – https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/blackmagicvideoassist Olympus M. Zuiko ED 12-40mm f/2.8 Pro– https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1003635-REG/olympus_v314060bu000_m_zuiko_digital_ed.html Samsung Portable SSD T5 - 2Tb– https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/memory-storage/portable-solid-state-drives/portable-ssd-t5-2tb-mu-pa2t0b-am/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sources The Great Library of Alexandria: The Untold Story Explained by Guillaume Deprez for The Collector https://www.thecollector.com/library-of-alexandria/ The Vanished Library by Luciano Canfora Great Library of Alexandria by Heather Phillips What Happened to the Ancient Library of Alexandria? edited by Mostafa El-Abbadi, Omnia Fathallah and Ismail Serageldin New dimensions of an ancient library: The Library of Alexandria by István Boda, Miklós Bényei and Erzsébet Tóth A three-dimensional virtual library model of the ancient Library of Alexandria by István Boda, Erzsébet Tóth, Miklós Bényei and István Csont The Arab Destruction Of The Library Of Alexandria: Anatomy Of A Myth By Bernard Lewis Myths of the Universal Library: From Alexandria to the Postmodern Age by Jon Thiem The internet and the revival of the myth of the universal library by Miroslav Kruk The destruction of the Library of Alexandria as myth and metaphor by Colin Higgins in “What do we lose when we lose a library?” What happened to the Great Library at Alexandria? By Brian Haughton for World History Encyclopedia https://www.worldhistory.org/article/207/what-happened-to-the-great-library-at-alexandria/ The Story of the Library of Alexandria Is Mostly a Legend, But the Lesson of Its Burning Is Still Crucial Today by Richard Ovenden for TIME https://time.com/5912689/library-of-alexandria-burning/ Church History by Socrates https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14118b.htm Aphthonius, Progymnasmata (XII) https://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/greece/paganism/daughter.html The Lives of the Twelve Caesars by C. Suetonius Tranquillus http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/Domitian*.html Historia Augusta, the Life of Hadrian http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/e/roman/texts/historia_augusta/hadrian/2*.html Ammianus Marcellinus, Rerum Gestarum http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Amm.%2022.16&lang=original Plutarch, Caesar http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0244%3Achapter%3D49%3Asection%3D3 Civil Wars Book III by Julius Caesar https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Caesar/Civil_Wars/3D*.html The Complete Works of Galen vol. 17– Commentary on Hippocrates’ Epidemics http://www.attalus.org/translate/extracts.html#stephanus