THE LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA-in our time interviews.

Antaletriangle · 03-23-2009, 01:15 PM

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/...20090312.shtml

Had the library at Alexandria not existed, it would have been invented by one of the many stories housed within its walls. It is a building of legendary status, a library built to contain all the knowledge of all the world on rank upon rank of Egyptian papyri.

Others were not so impressed. Timon of Phlius evoked the spirit of the place in his remark that ‘in populous Egypt many cloistered bookworms are fed, arguing endlessly in the chicken coop of the Muses’.

Whatever your view of it, the legacy of the library is with us today, not just in the ideas it stored and the ideas it seeded but also in the way it organised knowledge and the tools developed for dealing with it. It still influences the things we know and the way we know them to this day.

Contributors

Simon Goldhill, Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge

Matthew Nicholls, Lecturer in Classics at the University of Reading

Serafina Cuomo, Reader in Roman History at Birkbeck College, University of London

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Simón Bolívar - the liberator of Spanish America

Dante's Inferno - to Hell and back

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Starlah · 03-31-2009, 03:03 AM

Thankyou for this Resource Ant...I'll have to absorb it all before a CME or EMP shuts everything down...

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Love is a many splendored Flower its Essence fleeting in a Moment of Time...(Yours Truly)

03-23-2009, 01:15 PM	#1
Antaletriangle Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: U.K. Posts: 3,380	THE LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA-in our time interviews. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/...20090312.shtml Had the library at Alexandria not existed, it would have been invented by one of the many stories housed within its walls. It is a building of legendary status, a library built to contain all the knowledge of all the world on rank upon rank of Egyptian papyri. Others were not so impressed. Timon of Phlius evoked the spirit of the place in his remark that ‘in populous Egypt many cloistered bookworms are fed, arguing endlessly in the chicken coop of the Muses’. Whatever your view of it, the legacy of the library is with us today, not just in the ideas it stored and the ideas it seeded but also in the way it organised knowledge and the tools developed for dealing with it. It still influences the things we know and the way we know them to this day. Contributors Simon Goldhill, Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge Matthew Nicholls, Lecturer in Classics at the University of Reading Serafina Cuomo, Reader in Roman History at Birkbeck College, University of London List of listen again programmes in this series: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/..._current.shtml Current Series Archive You can listen again to all the programmes online. The most recent programmes appear at the top of the page. The Boxer Rebellion - "Kill all Foreigners!" The Library of Alexandria - of all the books in all the world... The Measurement Problem in Physics - Man is not the measure of all things The Waste Land and Modernity - "I will show you fear in a handful of dust" The Observatory at Jaipur - Indian astronomy on the cusp of colonialism The Destruction of Carthage - "Delenda Carthago!" The Brothers Grimm: fairy tales, Grimm - but not as we know them A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift - 18th century satire gets close to the bone Darwin - his life and achievements A History of History - how the writing of history has evolved Thoreau and the American Idyll - America in the Wilderness The Consolation of Philosophy - a new year's message from Boethius The Physics of Time - does time even exist? The Great Fire of London - London's burning, fetch the engines... Heat: A History - from fire to thermodynamics The Great Reform Act: reform - but was it great? The Baroque - the misshapen pearl of Europe Neuroscience - does the brain rule the mind? Aristotle's Politics - a perfect society? Simón Bolívar - the liberator of Spanish America Dante's Inferno - to Hell and back Vitalism - the spark of life Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems - the dirty secrets of maths The Translation Movement - Aristotle in Arabic Miracles - will they never cease? Last edited by Antaletriangle; 03-23-2009 at 01:23 PM.

03-31-2009, 03:03 AM	#2
Starlah Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: British Columbia, Canada Posts: 372	Re: THE LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA-in our time interviews. Thankyou for this Resource Ant...I'll have to absorb it all before a CME or EMP shuts everything down... __________________________________________ Love is a many splendored Flower its Essence fleeting in a Moment of Time...(Yours Truly)