Episode #139- What Became of the Great Library of Alexandria? (Part I)
Our Fake History
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The Great Library of Alexandria
The great library of alexandria has been described as the ancient world's equivalent of a modern think tank. Poets like calamachus, theocritus and pollonius of rhodes all called the museum home for a period of time. They were even provided stipens by ptolemy the second to produce masterpieces of hellenistic poetry. Ptolemy philadolphus is also credited with inviting a group of 70 jewish scholars to alexandrian so that they could translate the tora into greek. The result was a version of the old testament known as the septigant named for the 70 scholars who are traditionally believed to have
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