'The Ancient Library of Alexandria: A Lasting Influence Today'
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.พ. 2025
- You are welcome to join me for another fascinating tour, this time exploring one of the most famous and most expansive repositories of knowledge in the ancient world, the Great Library of Alexandria (roughly 300 BC - 400 AD).
Founded by offshoots of Alexander the Great's conquests in Egypt, in the newly-founded city of Alexandria, the powers that be had a determined and well-funded program to source all available texts, on any subject, at the time in the form of papyrus scrolls.
There were librarians, scholars, archivists, students all working on preserving, organising, and commenting on texts from the ancient world, an effort that hugely fuelled the renaissance and our heritage today, as many texts wouldn't have survived if not for the library.
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I spent two hours after min 8:55 on wiki reading about this painting. Now back to the video
This has to be one of the best TH-cam channels. I love how it's not riddled with commercials and bad jokes. It flows nicely is clear and concise and the visuals are so wonderful. Thanks.
Excellent and informative video Edward.. Of all the wonders in the ancient world, the Alexandrian library is the place I wish we could time travel to see. Very much appreciated
This is amazing! Thank you for taking the time to show us what you know!!
I've just spent the New Year's Eve and past midnight into the new year, with watching abot five hours of your AWESOME videos. Your channel deserves SO much more attention! These videos are brilliant. So informative, but in a very fun way. I like your humor, your narration, but also all the BEAUTIFUL art and paintings you add in the vids, pictures of the places you talk about, and the poetry you recite (and in the ancient languages even, before translating them). All of this makes the already interesting topics so much more alive.
I shall now finally go to bed (it's almost 2 at night over here in Germany, where I am), but I'll definitely come back for the rest of the videos on your channel - I've subscribed. And I hope, you make many more. Great work! Wishing you lots of good luck, happiness, health and success for 2022! 🍀
Thank you for that lovely feedback :) So appreciated. Happy New Year to you!
Thanks for your awesome high quality content !!
So Sagan had it wrong! Phew! I've been saddened by the burning of the library of Alexandria ever since watching "Cosmos" but now i learn it's nightingale voices went to the four winds and that so much survives.
Thank you! I'm learning so much from your talks. I really appreciate the time you put into these videos.
Plus, It's the first time I'm hearing ancient Greek and Latin spoken. They're such beautiful languages and it's fascinating to hear the roots of English echoing down the millennia.
I've read that it's the Latin that survived in the British Isles from the Romans through the church that kept it alive in it's purest form.
I do love the way languages & genetics have parallels. The way languages evolve & radiate...
I wonder, do you know enough about Proto-Indo-European to put together a talk on it?
It's fascinating stuff right!! Glad you enjoyed it :) I don't think I'll be doing a PIE language talk anytime soon, as it would be a fairly new subject, but maybe something etymological.
@@edwardcalcutt3417 Etymology is right up my street Edward! 😃
What you don't know is how much Greek was in Latin language already so that one third of English language is Greek!But it's not written in dictionaries.As a Greek and having a PCE degree I can say that positively!
Great stuff
I’m going to disagree with the TH-camr to this extent. The works produced in Alexandria (Euclid’s Elements, Callimachus, the Argonautica, Philo Judaeus) all speak to the presence of an extensive library in Alexandria. These were works steeped scholarship and so, they speak to an extensive library distilled into these works.
Your videos should get more likes and attention!
Wouldn't you love to have a time machine and take photographs of every scroll during the peak years so it can be preserved for posterity?
What you know is a man made his-story.
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The Greeks did not conquer Egypt. The Egyptians welcomed them
Khem was before egypt
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How outstanding for Ptolemy in Alexandria to understand the value of Knowledge and be willing to pay money snd acquire books for his Library and found a University like the Academy in Athens.
Gutenberg invented the printing press in 1440. After the fall of Constantinople to the muslim Turks in 1453 hundreds of Greek scholars found refuge in Venice. Aldus Minutius a printer there / CONNECTIONS made thousands of cheap pocket book copies of Ancient Greek authors in translation and these books ignited the GREEK RENAISSANCE that ended the dark Middle Ages.