Hermione Wrote:
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> Ahatmose Wrote:
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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.

Yes it was Plato, in Athens with a quill (or did he use a stylus in wax)