Few days ago, in a coffe talk or beer talk, about an informal conversation about the physical resemblance between some people, a good friend, who has lived many years in Latin America, told a joke located in Venezuela:
Library of Alexandria (and 6): The Bible of the Seventies.
In the populous city of Alexandria there was a very large Jewish community. The Jews were already numerous groups throughout the Greek world, to the point that many of them barely understand Aramaic or Hebrew.
Library of Alexandria (5) Did the Library of Alexandria disappeared by a grand fire?
According to tradition thousand times repeated, the famous Library of Alexandria disappeared in a great fire. It seems that this is the tragic end sooner or later to which all libraries are doomed.
The Library of Alexandria (4) Scholars, sages, bibliographers and librarians
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.
The library of Alexandria (3): The Library of Alexandria acquired books in a curious way
The claim of the Ptolemies was to collect “all books of all peoples of the earth” , perhaps following the advice of Demetrios of Falera . Certainly some of the stories that were told in antiquity reveal the passion of the Ptolemies to equip its library of Alexandria with the books which were in the known world. Sources also foreshadow the rivalry between the two great libraries of Alexandria and Pergamum.
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?
The library is a Greek creation
Alexandria was the spiritual and cultural capital of the world from the third century BC to the fifth or sixth century AD. Under the largest library of Antiquity, which sought to retain all the knowledge stored in books systematically with exemplary sense of intellectual freedom, lived and worked a college or community of wise and educated persons and scholars who developed the physics, astronomy, mathematics, geometry, geography, engineering, medicine, philosophy, literature, grammar, rhetoric … They were the basis of Western knowledge.
The accounts of the great Publius Cornelius Scipio African Major
Known and frequent is the expression “the accounts of the Great Captain ” to refer to a lack of justification or outrageously ridiculous justification of expenditures .
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Few students, heavily loaded with their “textbooks ” will suspect that the word” text ” means “tissue “and that, what they do with that expression, is to continue using an old metaphor.
Was Pericles a Keynesian?
The majestic buildings of the Acropolis of Athens, which have caused much admiration from antiquity until today, were built by Athenians unemployed people. The beautification of Athens is attributed to Pericles and are quoted the great artists like Ictinos, Callicrates, Phidias …