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The Library of Alexandria: Scholarship and Fire
Long before the Museum and Library of Alexandria became legend, they were the brainchild of Ptolemy I Soter and his son Ptolemy II Philadelphus. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how the Ptolemies transformed a small Mediterranean port into the intellectual capital of the Hellenistic world. They discuss the library's founding, its ambitious acquisition policies—including the infamous seizure of ships' books—and the scholars who worked there: Callimachus, Eratosthenes, Euclid, and Aristophanes of Byzantium. They also examine the library's destruction, separating fact from…
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