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Episode #139- What Became of the Great Library of Alexandria? (Part I)

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The Great Library

Librarians were well known fixtures in the ancient mediterranean literary world. The great library was home to between 200,000 and 700,000 papyrus scrolls. Homer's iliad apparently took up 24 scrolls. At its height it had a collection of 17 hundred books.

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