ary history, was founded by Ptolemy Soter, King of Egypt, who died B.C. 283, and was greatly enlarged by his son Ptolemy Philadelphus and the succeeding Ptolemies. In connection with the museum was the Alexandrian[33] Library, the most famous and the largest collections of books in the world, and the glory of Alexandria. Demetrius Phalereus, after his 杭州水疗spa会所全套 banishment from Athens, is said to have been its first superintendent, when the number of volumes, or rolls, amounted to 50,000.
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Julius C?sar’s siege of the city, but was replaced by the library of Pergamus, which was sent by Antony as a present to Cleopatra. The Serapeion library, which probably included the Pergamean collection, existed to the time of the Emperor Theodosius the Great. At the general destruction of 杭州桑拿按摩推荐 the heathen temples, which took place under this emperor, the splendid temple of Jupiter Serapis was set upon and gutted (A.D. 391) by a fanatical crowd of Christians at the 杭州有口的足浴 instigation of the Archbishop Theophilus, when its literary treasures were destroyed or scattered. The historian Orosius relates that in the beginning of the fifth century only the empty shelves were to be seen.
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