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To: LindyBill who wrote (15963)	1/9/2002 6:03:38 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Oh really? The main library was apparently the victim of a Roman war in the 3rd C AD,and conservative Christians allegedly finished it off in 391 (oh DEAR! the people of the bloody cross!!!). Of course people have this tendency to make their "enemies" responsible for everything- including natural disasters, and self inflicted wounds. uh.edu I realize this is an ancient foreign affair- but I still hope it is on topic to correct factual mistatements. I hate to see even ancient urban legends propagated. Aristarchus of Samothrace, the sixth librarian, wrote not only monographs about poetry but also important commentaries on Homer, Pindar, and much of tragedy and comedy. Aristarchus was one of the many learned men who left Alexandria in consequence of the disastrous persecution of learning by Ptolemy VIII, from which that city's standing as a great centre of learning never quite recovered. (The great library survived a fire set in Alexandria in 47 BC by Julius Caesar, whose army supported Cleopatra in a civil war. It was finally destroyed in AD 272 in the civil war under the Roman emperor Aurelian.)