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Episode #140- What Became of the Great Library of Alexandria? (Part II)

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The Daughter Library in the Temple of Sorapis

This is yet another instance where the daughter library in the temple of sorapis, the serapeum, gets confused with the great library of the museum. Edward gibbon was one of the most famous historians to accidentally conflate these two separate buildings. This wasn't just a spontaneous outpouring of zealous ignorant rage on the part of alexandria's christians. Riots and deadly street fights between rival gangs and political factions were a regular occurrence,. dating back to the time of the ptolemies. Alexandria had a reputation not unlike paris in the modern era.

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