Library of Alexandria
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- 4. When the ______ army took the city, a general reportedly asked the caliph what was to be done with all the surviving scrolls.
- 7. There were also Jewish, _________ and Buddhist texts.
- 9. There was also a ______ ______ whose students practiced the dissection of human cadavers — a unique skill that was rarely practiced in Europe before the 15th-century Renaissance
- 10. Theophilus, the ______ of Alexandria, acted upon this decree by destroying the Serapeum and ordering a church to be built on the ruins, according to World History Encyclopedia.
- 11. Julius Caesar was accused by historians such as Plutarch and Seneca of starting a _____ in Alexandria that burned the library to the ground, and for a long time modern historians accepted this version of events
- 13. It was erected near the royal palace in Alexandria sometime between 246 B.C. and 222 B.C. and was dedicated to the Greco-Egyptian god _______.
- 15. These written works, called ______, were made out of papyrus, a reed that grew along the Nile River.
- 17. These topics included, for example, natural history, history, poetry, law, ________, medicine and mathematics
- 18. "But it is unclear whether the _______ was founded by Alexander, Ptolemy I or [his son] Ptolemy II, but it seems likely that it came to fruition under the latter, who ruled from 284 to 246 B.C."
- 19. _______ was not a limitation; the Ptolemaic rulers were willing to pay vast sums for quality manuscripts.
- 20. One of them, Ptolemy I Soter, became the ruler of ______ and established his capital at Alexandria.
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- 1. There were also medical texts by _________; poetry by Sappho, Pindar and Hesiod; and scientific tracts by Thales, Democritus and Anaximander.
- 2. Ptolemy VIII also ordered the ________ of all non-Alexandrian scholars from the city.
- 3. A depiction of the School of Athens, with ______ and Aristotle in the center, created by Raphael between 1508 and 1511
- 5. There were also texts containing religious, __________ and medical subjects.
- 6. Some of the most _______ minds of the period worked, studied and taught at the library.
- 8. Zenodotus also edited the work of Hesiod, Pindar and other ancient _______, as well as producing his own poetry
- 12. He also became the chief ___________ of the library under the reign of Ptolemy III Euergetes, according to Britannica.
- 14. According to the Coptic bishop John of _____, Diocletian, "set fire to the city and burned it completely."
- 15. The Alexandrian _____ copied these, keeping the originals and sending the copies back to the ships.
- 16. Wendrich characterized the destruction of the Library of Alexandria as a "____ ____" that "took place over centuries."
- 18. Demetrius' grand design was to erect a place of learning that would rival Aristotle's famous _______, a school and library near Athens.