The Rise and Fall of Alexandria: Birthplace of the Modern Mind - Justin Pollard
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The astonishing story of the ancient city that invented the modern world
Founded by Alexander the Great and built by Greek pharaohs, the city of Alexandria at its height dwarfed both Athens and Rome. It was the marvel of its age?legendary for its vast palaces, safe harbors, and magnificent lighthouse. But it was most famous for the astonishing intellectual fluorescence it fostered and the library it produced. If the European Renaissance was the ?rebirth? of Western culture, then Alexandria, Egypt, was its birthplace. It was here mankind first discovered that the earth was not flat, originated atomic theory, invented geometry, systematized grammar, translated the Old Testament into Greek, built the steam engine, and passed their discoveries on to future generations via the written word. Julius Caesar, Anthony and Cleopatra, Jewish scholars, Greek philosophers, and devout early Christians all play a part in the rise and fall of the city that stood ?at the conjunction of the whole world.? Compulsively readable and sparkling with fresh insights into science, philosophy, culture, and invention, this is an irresistible, eye-opening delight.
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This post has 8 comments with rating of 4.8/5
September 5th, 2021
Pollard also has an excellent work on “Alfred Great” - as Philomena Cunk calls him. She also advises that you consult a person’s name prior to appointing him king. So “Alfred the Great” is fine, but “Nigel the S**t” as she observes, is questionable.
September 5th, 2021
Philomena Cunk, the best comedy sketch series of the 21th century. Top Gear for nerds and history buffs.
September 5th, 2021
Intriguingly, she also began her history of Britain with the dinosaurs, which was a serious departure from Simon Schama. And every other historian in history. She insisted that the film she used of the terrible lizards in the documentary was “actual footage” of dinosaurs. The “across” one typically fought the “up-down” one, she noticed.
September 6th, 2021
Thank you for this!
September 6th, 2021
Thank you so much
September 20th, 2021
Thanks
November 29th, 2021
This is a great book, and a great reading. However, word to those who love accuracy. Pollard is no historian in the strict sense. More a pop one. His claim that Ceasar burned the library flies in the face of rigorous research, where as a minimum Strabo, Theon, Hypatia etc, all accessed the library into 4th century and on. Pollar distorts Livy on this, and he deliberately downplays the Emir Amrou’s final act, by claiming the source for this is Bar Hebraus. This is bunk. The source for Amrou’s account is multi-fold, including Eutychius and Ibn al-Kifti.
Still, the work is a great general introduction to a subject about which very little is ever written.
December 7th, 2022
This is a great book, but Hollywood is not your history teacher.
“….there is not a single shred of evidence—ancient, medieval, or modern—that Christians were responsible for either collection’s destruction, and no one before the late eighteenth century ever suggested they were.”
“In the end, the true story of Hypatia—which no one will ever make into a film—tells us very little about ancient religion, or about the relation between ancient Christianity and the sciences, and absolutely nothing about some alleged perennial conflict between Christianity and science; but it does tell us a great deal about social class in the late Hellenistic world.”
https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2010/06/the-perniciously-persistent-myths-of-hypatia-and-the-great-library
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