
Smoke of Alexandria
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The burning of the Library of Alexandria is the ultimate symbol of lost knowledge, a tragedy that supposedly set humanity back by centuries. But historian Alice Harper argues in "e;The Smoke of Alexandria"e; that the popular narrative-a single catastrophic fire started by Caesar or religious zealots-is a myth that obscures a more complex and relevant truth. Harper reconstructs the life of the Mo...
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The burning of the Library of Alexandria is the ultimate symbol of lost knowledge, a tragedy that supposedly set humanity back by centuries. But historian Alice Harper argues in "e;The Smoke of Alexandria"e; that the popular narrative-a single catastrophic fire started by Caesar or religious zealots-is a myth that obscures a more complex and relevant truth. Harper reconstructs the life of the Mo...
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