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Library of Antioch

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120:"And they constructed buildings of learning. Among these is a circular structure, in the middle of which is a dome 100 cubits high; and in this is a reproduction of the heavens, including stars, signs of the zodiac and horoscopes, with movements which have been worked out by the savants and completed by the Brahmins, who in the science of the heavens, have reached the highest rank. So nothing moves in the real heavens, without having its likeness reproduced: sun, moon and everything which is in the heavens." 56: 108:
In reality, these complexes had their origins as shrines to the Muses but that transmogrified rather rapidly into the first universities. While Alexandria's had a long and illustrious fame turning out well known artists and intellectuals over the centuries, Antioch's, had a more humble and obscure
101:(95–92 B.C.), Antioch also acquired the means for a Museum with a library to be built with the monies bequeathed to the city in the will of Maron, a merchant of Antioch who had relocated to Athens, but like many merchants of the day who moved left a portion of his estate to his native city. 104:
This Museion was similar to its rival Alexandria, though that of Alexandria seems to have come first. The most famous part of the Alexandria complex was the famed Library. Antioch's also contained a substantial library component.
84:. Intentions in the event may have been religious, although some historians attribute them moreso to social, economic, and ethnic differences. Other historians have entirely cast doubt onto whether this event really occurred. 92:
There is also a possibility that another structure was also considered a part of the Royal Library, but this is uncertain according to scholars. At some time between 114 B.C and 92 B.C. during the reign of either
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Gewalt und religiöser Konflikt : Studien zu den Auseinandersetzungen zwischen Christen, Heiden und Juden im Osten des Römischen Reiches (von Konstantin bis Theodosius II)
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near to the "old" city but on the higher side of the colonnaded street. A report in Stinespring of the Vatican Codex may refer to this establishment:
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Map of the City where the Library was thought to be located upper end of the Colonaded Street lower slope of Mt. Silpius.
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Christianity, book-burning and censorship in late antiquity: studies in text transmission
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Sometimes confused with the Library of Antioch, a statement in the works of
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the Museion was near the agora of Epiphania, was founded under
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The Museion in Antioch was reportedly on the lower slopes of
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Buildings and structures completed in the 3rd century BC
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Buildings and structures demolished in the 4th century
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Index

Antiochus III
Seleucid Empire
Alexander the Great
Antioch
Antakya
Euphorion of Chalcis
Greece
Antioch

John of Antioch
Hadrian
Julian the Apostate
Jovian
Antiochus IX
Antiochus X
Mt Silpius
Lassus
Antiochus Philpator
Tiberius
Marcus Aurelius
Probus
Empress Eudoxia
Constantine
comes Orientis
"History of Libraries"
Gewalt und religiöser Konflikt : Studien zu den Auseinandersetzungen zwischen Christen, Heiden und Juden im Osten des Römischen Reiches (von Konstantin bis Theodosius II)
ISBN
3-05-003760-1
OCLC
56957343

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