Every library should be well organized with well cataloged collections. The Library of Alexandria seems that it was organized so and somehow it laid the foundations of the art of librarianship.
Library of Alexandria (2): How many volumes had the Library of Alexandria?
We know that the Library of Alexandria had pretensions to store all the universal knowledge of the time, but, how many volumes had actually?
Ask not of friends what you yourself can do. Ne quid exspectes amicos, quod tute agere possis.
A few days ago a good friend of high literary sensibility made use of the sentence allegedly attributed to Shakespeare I always feel happy, You know why? Because I don’t expect anything from anyone, Expectations always hurt.
Apophthegmata , aphorisms, adages, maxims, axioms, sentences,
The Greeks were the ones who decided that knowledge and advances in knowledge should be taught to citizens and that these were to be educated in that knowledge and respect for the law. Certainly neither the Greeks nor the Romans created a public system similar to modern education, but an education system with its various stages.
The ancient Romans computed and digitized over two thousand years ago.
Few words are of more contemporary use than “compute, computer, and digital”. Well, “compute, computing” are Latin words meaning of course calculating, counting, computing.
Importance of music in the ancient Greek world
Most of the linguistic terms used in “music” are of Greek origin.
Is it interesting to know details and anecdotes of the Ancient World?
Surely there are many people, including friends from “facebook”, to whom these various anecdotes or comments about the ancient world interest little or interest nothing at all indeed. Probably somebody thinks they are writings made by self-absorbed people who don´t really care about the real and current problems of the crazy world we actually live in because he or she considers that the Ancient World is far away. Of course it is a respectable opinion.
Aut insanit homo aut versus facit Either the man is crazy, or he’s writing poetry
“Aut insanit homo aut versus facit” is one of many “topics” of the Latin poet Horace Quintus Flaccus; topic in the etymological sense of “place”, passage appointment, from Greek τόπος. The verse, become “maxima”, sentence, is quoted by many people in a variety of contexts.
Androcles and the grateful Lion
Androcles and the Lion is a famous story that has enchanted the interest of many people from antiquity to the present day.
All the boys and all the girls: κόρους τε ἅμα καὶ κόρας (kórous te áma kaì kóras), πάντ᾽ ἄνδρα καὶ γυναῖκα (pánt’ándra kaì gynaîka).
One of the most important changes that has been originated in modern society, in Western society and worldwide is that of equality between men and women, full legal equality real and only partly in status or social function.