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Ahatmose Wrote:
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> With the burning of The Library of
> Alexandria
...
See also here - [www.bede.org.uk].
and the throwing in the river of the
> entire "Library of Baghdad" by the Mongol hoards
...
[en.wikipedia.org]
[en.wikipedia.org])
...
> And we always have that curious passage where
> Solon is quoted as saying to the Greeks that they
> are like children for they only think about one
> catastrophe when there has been many. I wonder
> where he might have got that idea ? Just a fertile
> imagination ?
Yes. Plato's.
Hermione
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> With the burning of The Library of
> Alexandria
...
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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. [en.wikipedia.org]
See also here - [www.bede.org.uk].
and the throwing in the river of the
> entire "Library of Baghdad" by the Mongol hoards
...
[en.wikipedia.org]
[en.wikipedia.org])
...
> And we always have that curious passage where
> Solon is quoted as saying to the Greeks that they
> are like children for they only think about one
> catastrophe when there has been many. I wonder
> where he might have got that idea ? Just a fertile
> imagination ?
Yes. Plato's.
Hermione
Director/Moderator - The Hall of Ma'at
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hallofmaatforum@proton.me
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