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1 day ago · Further evidence for the Library's survival after 48 BC comes from the fact that the most notable producer of composite commentaries during the late first century BC and early first century AD was a scholar who worked in Alexandria named Didymus Chalcenterus, whose epithet Χαλκέντερος (Chalkénteros) means "bronze guts".
- Libraries of The Ancient World
Long considered to be the first systematically collected...
- Imperial Library of Constantinople
The Imperial Library of Constantinople, in the capital city...
- Eratosthenes of Cyrene
Eratosthenes of Cyrene (/ ɛr ə ˈ t ɒ s θ ə n iː z /; Greek:...
- Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Bibliotheca Alexandrina Bibliotheca Alexandrina. The...
- List of Destroyed Libraries
Birmingham Central Library destroyed by fire, 1879 The urn...
- Zenodotus
A native of Ephesus and a pupil of Philitas of Cos, he lived...
- Palmyrene Invasion
The Palmyrene invasion of Egypt occurred in the summer, or...
- Libraries of The Ancient World
5 hours ago · Thermopylae is one of the most famous battles in European ancient history, repeatedly referenced in ancient, recent, and contemporary culture. [citation needed] In Western culture at least, it is the Greeks who are lauded for their performance in battle. [134]
- 21–23 July, 20 August or 8–10 September 480 BC
- Persian victory
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5 hours ago · e. Biblical literalist chronology is the attempt to correlate the historical dates used in the Bible with the chronology of actual events, typically starting with creation in Genesis 1:1. [1] Some of the better-known calculations include Archbishop James Ussher, who placed it in 4004 BC, Isaac Newton in 4000 BC (both off the Masoretic Hebrew ...
1 day ago · Hypatia [a] (born c. 350–370; died 415 AD) [1] [4] was a Neoplatonist philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who lived in Alexandria, Egypt, then part of the Eastern Roman Empire. She was a prominent thinker in Alexandria where she taught philosophy and astronomy. [5] Although preceded by Pandrosion, another Alexandrian female ...
- March 415 AD (aged 45–65), Alexandria, Province of Egypt, Eastern Roman Empire
- Western philosophy
1 day ago · Osburh. Alfred the Great (also spelled Ælfred; c. 849 – 26 October 899) was King of the West Saxons from 871 to 886, and King of the Anglo-Saxons from 886 until his death in 899. He was the youngest son of King Æthelwulf and his first wife Osburh, who both died when Alfred was young. Three of Alfred's brothers, Æthelbald, Æthelberht and ...
- 23 April 871 – c. 886
- Osburh
1 day ago · William Shakespeare. William Shakespeare ( c. 23 [a] April 1564 – 23 April 1616) [b] was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. [4] [5] [6] He is often called England's national poet and the " Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard").
1 day ago · Succeeded by. Otto Gessler. Charles Edward (Leopold Charles Edward George Albert; [note 1] 19 July 1884 – 6 March 1954) was a British prince until 1919, the last sovereign duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, a state of the German Empire, reigning from 30 July 1900 to 14 November 1918, and later a Nazi politician.
