Western Civilization I / Unit 5 WC1 0421 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Library of Alexandria and the Museon
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The idea
The Ptolemies funded the Library and the Museon, which the anchor calls the first research university in the West: every text collected and translated, lecture halls, scholars in residence. Its destruction is contested, Caesar's forces or later fanatics, no verdict.
In practice
Collecting and translating everything, from every subject people.
Where people slip
Do not assign the burning to one culprit. The anchor refuses to.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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