Library of Alexandria

[Anonymous No.16964965]

imagine all the greekino we lost..

[Anonymous No.16964973]

>>16964965
Reminder that it's the muslims fault

[Anonymous No.16965059]

>>16964973
>he needs knowledge that isn't in the Koran

[Anonymous No.16965075]

>>16964965
>Despite the widespread modern belief that the Library of Alexandria was burned once and cataclysmically destroyed, the Library actually declined gradually over the course of several centuries. This decline began with the purging of intellectuals from Alexandria in 145 BC during the reign of Ptolemy VIII Physcon, which resulted in Aristarchus of Samothrace, the head librarian, resigning from his position and exiling himself to Cyprus. Many other scholars, including Dionysius Thrax and Apollodorus of Athens, fled to other cities, where they continued teaching and conducting scholarship. The Library, or part of its collection, was accidentally burned by Julius Caesar during his civil war in 48 BC, but it is unclear how much was actually destroyed and it seems to have either survived or been rebuilt shortly thereafter; the geographer Strabo mentions having visited the Mouseion in around 20 BC and the prodigious scholarly output of Didymus Chalcenterus in Alexandria from this period indicates that he had access to at least some of the Library's resources

[Anonymous No.16965085]

>>16964965
Should've used Dropbox.

[Anonymous No.16965097]

Bros imagine what was lost in WW2. All those libraries and monasteries containing stuff that was being shielded from the world. Bombed.

[Anonymous No.16965119]

>>16965097
I read an article about how the Nazis melted down thousands of Church tower bells, many which were hundreds of years old, to make ammunition. It's a shame

[Anonymous No.16965130]

Beautiful etching... usually they're just black and white

[Anonymous No.16965146]

>destroyed by caesar
>destroyed by aurelian
>destroyed by diocletian
>destroyed by the calpih

something was in there that (((they))) didn't want us to know

[Anonymous No.16965179]

>>16964965
I'm okay with it

[Anonymous No.16965190]

>>16964965
If the only copies that existed were in the library they probably weren't that important

So at least we still have the GOAT of greekino which is the Iliad

[Anonymous No.16965370]

>>16965190
Homeric fans would probably have loved the lost works of Longinus...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_literary_work#Specific_titles

We lost Manetho's History of Egypt, the History of Babylonia, Sulla's Memoirs, Augustus' Epigrams, Aristotle's second volume of the Poetics (the book of Comedy), Callinicus' History of Alexandria, Claudius' account of Carthaginian History, A History of Greek Geometry, Cato's Maxims,

I wish we had the other work by Quintilian, but we're lucky that we have the other works. The other works by Suetonius sound quite entertaining.

>>16965146
I'm sure Seneca the Younger's Book of Signs would be very interesting as well...

[Anonymous No.16965379]

[Anonymous No.16965396]

>>16965190
Some really important works have come down to us in incredibly flukey ways, often through a single copy. Even works that weren't rare at the time could possibly have survived where the other copies didn't

[Anonymous No.16965400]

>>16964965
And that's a good thing!

[Anonymous No.16965436]

>>16965370
>We lost Manetho's History of Egypt
that would have been nice to have

[Anonymous No.16965505]

>>16965436
Why would it a History of Egypt have become so politicized about the time of Julius Caesar? Both Egypt and the Etruscan culture really collapse historically about this time, at least Claudius was eager to retain the latter part since Roman had so many Etruscan Senators.

[Anonymous No.16965521]

>>16965436
actually you can read some good accounts of the Seleucid Greek Ptolemies, there are even some dramatizations by screenwriters like Philip Mackie. And the Apocrypha of course survives even if it gets memory-holed by Luther.

[Anonymous No.16965670]

>>16965379
>The temples of Isis and Sarepis were among the finest ever built, and were partly used for scientific purposes
It doesn't say that they destroyed the instruments for astronomical observation, only the building itself. Is there another source for this?

[Anonymous No.16965679]

Supposedly the movie AGORA (2009) misrepresents the loss of the Library?

[Anonymous No.16965723]

>>16965370
we also lost all the Presocratics, a majority of Alexandrian poetry, numerous works of Stoic, Epicurean, and Academic/Pyrrhonian Skeptic philosophy, the entirety of New Comedy, and early Latin poetry, drama, and comedy, most importantly pic rel

[Anonymous No.16965778]

>>16964973
Qur’an is superior to all pagan speculation, seethe kafir

[Anonymous No.16965793]

>>16965379
what book is this

[Anonymous No.16965821]

>>16964965

The baffling question is, why the fuck were so many military leaders so eager to destroy it in the first place?

I read somewhere that the destruction of this library blew humanity back by 1000 thousand years. And that's not counting the library of Pergamum, Baghdad, and Constantinople that our retarded ancestors fucked over as well.

[Anonymous No.16965828]

>>16965821
>I read somewhere that the destruction of this library blew humanity back by 1000 thousand years.

Where did you read something so nonsensical?

[Anonymous No.16965842]

>>16965778

Ew, fucking Desert cult heathen.

[Anonymous No.16965843]

>>16965821
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_destroyed_libraries

it hurts...

[Anonymous No.16965863]

Isnt the Library of Alexandria pseud meme?
I remember once hearing that it was, and that no many actual works were completely lost, but I fail to recall if the one who told me so, did so with any authority on matter

[Anonymous No.16965866]

>>16965723
>a majority of Alexandrian poetry
They didn't really write verse in alexandrines did they?

> the entirety of New Comedy, and early Latin poetry
Aristophanes is certainly funny, but New Comedy is just a form of slave comedy and probably a degradation of what Aristotle would have articulated in the Poetics. It's hard to know however... many works of early Latin poetry may have been satire, but what can equal Juvenal for that?

It could be interesting to see Triphallus performed as a greek play though, definitely.

>>16965793
Dr. William Smith's Bible Dictionary, an American publication. 1959 Edition, A.J. Holman Company. I think the text is from the later 19th Century. It's often found in thrift stores for about $2.00, but get the hardcover not the paperback. I think there is an extended Three Volume edition as well? This edition is just a compilation but it's a great book!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nghjgdSExEk

https://www.biblestudytools.com/dictionaries/smiths-bible-dictionary/

[Anon123 No.16965875]

>>16965828

It was an article from some website I found in Google or a YT video talking about the library. I'm sorry, I don't have the link anymore.

Anyways, at least a few notable documents like Greek translations of the new Testament survived.

[Anonymous No.16965877]

It's sad that so many works of classical antiquity have been lost. The Greek philosophy that survives today is just a partial fragment of what was produced. Who can say what insights were lost.

[Anonymous No.16965891]

>>16964965
>>16965097
Vghhhh!! The pain is too mvch!

[Anonymous No.16965942]

Most of Longinus' work suggests that he was a close reader of Homer. Does anything remain on the work on Attic Diction?

[Anonymous No.16965952]

>>16964965
It can't have been that important if there weren't extra copies made

[Anonymous No.16965961]

>>16965877
True.

[Anonymous No.16965963]

>>16965793
Mainly compiled by British scholars

[Anonymous No.16965972]

>>16965963
This edition is described as 'A New Analytical and Comparative Concordance', probably based off this last mentioned Edition. The spine has A New Complete Concordance - 1000 Questions and Answers (which is considered a special feature) 'WELCH'.

I have to say, you're doing very well for yourself if you have the whole 3-Volume set in your library. They appear to have wonderful illustrations.

[Anonymous No.16966004]

>>16965679
Not really. While it is true that christcucks rekt the library, many others did too. It is not surprising that the historically illiterate get their one sided facts from films and repeat them without a second thought.

[Anonymous No.16966538]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYJAQ08_FJM

[Anonymous No.16966965]

>>16965842
>Picture attached of a soldier of another desert cult

[Anonymous No.16967460]

Bros imagine all the kino we lost during the christian dark ages. All those crusades, town raids, burnings, repression. Makes me sick thinking about the wasted time. A thousand years of destruction. There is indeed something they didnt want us to know.

[Anonymous No.16967548]

>>16964965
Was thinking about this today. Legitimately depressing.

[Anonymous No.16967624]

>>16965877
>>16964965
`lost'
It's all in the Vatican behind the statue to Moloch

[Anonymous No.16967674]

>>16967460
almost as bad as the time i dropped my hard drive on a hard tile floor

[Anonymous No.16967678]

>>16964965
Why didn't they save them all in a usb?

[Anonymous No.16967737]

>>16965942
How did they learn the titles of his works? Did they find a list compiled by a contemporary of his?

[Anonymous No.16967849]

>>16967737
from here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suda

[Anonymous No.16967896]

>>16967624
ok guys i look underage enough, i can take one for the team. just buy me a ticket

[Anonymous No.16968006]

>>16965778
reminder that muslimoids are subhumans and china is doing the correct thing by exterminating them.

[Anonymous No.16968065]

>>16965370
I would love to hear a few of the epigrams of Augustus... I mean he had a long reign and you have to wonder what the bantz were like back then.

[Anonymous No.16968650]

>>16965146
chariots of the gods

[Anonymous No.16969946]

>>16966004
>it is true that christcucks rekt the library
>source: butterball Edward Giboon's speculations

[Anonymous No.16970049]

>>16965866
No, Alexandrine meter was first used in the Middle Ages, originating in France. By Alexandrians I mean the poets of the Alexandria during the reign of the Ptolemies, poets such as Euphorion, Philitas of Cos, and especially Callimachus whose work is either entirely lost or only scant fragments are availible

[Anonymous No.16970310]

>>16965843
>no dresden
>mfw
I don't know about literature but many music manuscripts by great composers were destroyed there, such as containing works of: Zelenka, Albinoni; probably some Bach; and most importantly Petzold, for God's sake, PETZOLD!

[Anonymous No.16970345]

>>16965821
Quick reminder that all the works in alexandria had been copied. They were likely copied at other libraries as well. I just hope that we got the best works handed down, though it sucks that they had to be lost. Think about all the authors and poets who have been degraded from artists to names due to the loss of their works, it’s much too sad.

[Anonymous No.16970458]

>>16965778
>>16965842

[Anonymous No.16971267]

The Egyptians have a story about it.

The Muslims arrived and conquered the land. They then talked to the Librarians and asked
"Do these books contain anything that goes against the Koran? For if it does we will burn it down."
And since they had no knowledge of it they went
"Well we do-"
And before they finished that sentence the conquerors replied
"It does not actually matter. It will be destroyed anyway."

[Anonymous No.16971292]

>>16965119
Fuck bells

[Anonymous No.16971970]

>>16965130
Bad attempt at sounding educated.

Fuck you retard.

[Anonymous No.16972023]

>>16965778
>God is so great and almighty and wonderfull
Rrpeat this for 600 pages and you have the quran. How is this even supposed to compare to the Bible or the Vedic texts?

[Anonymous No.16972090]

>>16972023
much like the tanahk, it has to be understood within the context of idolatry/monolatry. not defending the koran as literature, just putting it in context

[Anonymous No.16972099]

>>16964965
>>16965097

frens, think about all the knowledge and statues that were lost in 2020 due to nigger nazis and ant-fag-a. All those pieces of history and businesses destroyed. And all those innocent boomers beaten in the streets for no reason. They were so close to enjoying their 401k's. And thats what really gets me. If your not a boomer, then you don't know how important a 401k is to boomer. They sold out their parents, their children and grandchildren, their race, their country, and their community all so they could enjoy their 401k. So they could keep living the lazy, high spending, care free life they always have well into retirement. But now... due to the hordes of orcs and orc lovers... Not their not going to be able to enjoy that... and it breaks my heart inside.

[Anonymous No.16972121]

>>16972099
Okay

[Anonymous No.16972165]

>>16972121
I know pal. It will all be okay. I am sure the gubberment will have more taxes to pay the businesses and insurance companies for the destruction and to bail out the boomers. And for the people paying those taxes its time to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps.

[Anonymous No.16972171]

>>16972165
Did you get lost pal? This is a comfy thread about the ancient Library of Alexandria and your schizoid /pol/ack ramblings about 401ks is quite out of place.

[Anonymous No.16972196]

>>16972090
It is supposed to be the literal word of god, the last of his revelations. Shouldn't it have more content than that? Muslims need to use the Hadiths to even be able to puzzle together the religion, because the quran alone is not enough. How can this be considered the greatest book by muslims? I suspect that 95% of muslims have never read it, only heard their preacher sing it in arabic (which most don't understand btw) and liked the way it sounded.

[Anonymous No.16972212]

>>16972196
it is the greatest muslim book because it is foundational to their culture, but surely in their hearts they would say their greatest literature is the Arabian Nights

[Anonymous No.16972216]

>>16972171

you need to go back to red dit. 4chan is for free speech. Not tranny communists that want to censor people.

[Anonymous No.16973196]

Guarantee you that many of those Ancient texts have survived and found their way into the secret library of the Vatican, locked away and kept from the rest of mankind

[Anonymous No.16973199]

>>16973196
>mfw they have Moses' body in the Vatican Vault

[Anonymous No.16973636]

Thinking about these lost works always depresses me more then it should for some reason. Greek and Latin plays and poetry just had such a unique style and interpretation of life. If there's an afterlife I want to read the works there


>>16965396
If I recall didn't one of Aeschylus's Oresteia trilogy survive in only one manuscript? We wouldn't have a single preseverd trilogy if not for that (and we don't even have the satyr play that's part of the tetralogy). It's scary to think how lucky we were with some works.

>>16967737
There's various reference books during the period that were written compiling authors and their works.

[Anonymous No.16973644]

>>16972216
Suck my cock you /pol/tard. I'm surprised you faggots learned to read.

[Anonymous No.16973657]

>>16965842
>post a crusader, the original “die for Israel” ZOGbots
You should go back to the desert too

[Anonymous No.16973665]

>>16964973
It fell to neglect. By the time it was burned it was already almost empty

[Anonymous No.16973667]

>>16972023
God is the greatest and most powerful. It is all one needs to know. Submit to your creator and obey.

[Anonymous No.16973669]

>>16971267

[Anonymous No.16973685]

>>16970310
>all that zelenka
What could have been

[Anonymous No.16974935]

>>16972099
I too would wish that columbus had never existed and that the US had never been found, so I’m thinking they’re pretty based.

[Anonymous No.16974953]

We invented archaeology so we don't need any of those histories anymore, chill the fuck out

[Anonymous No.16975224]

>>16974953
???