Ancient Greek and Roman Libraries
Gresham College Lectures
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The Library of Alexandria
Weise said she was ted to the role because the science and philosophy physically embodied in hypatia as she worked at the library, represent the possibility of a tolerant, science base, multicultural future for humankind. She claims that the conflict in the movie is analogous to the struggle america in two thousand and nine of christian fundamentalism versus science. The fall of the library is epitomized in these accounts by the sodistic christians assault on hypatia's inevitably beautiful, fragile papyrus,. highly unlikely in an ian greek of alexandria, but that's finely narrated in kingsy's chapter 20a. Ninea.
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