>ywn visit the library of alexandria with your handy torch,

Inb4 muh sage scrolls.

Trade transactions > meme philsophers, we could learn more from understanging their economy than anything else.

>>1342071
This, documentations are much more interesting than some lads complaining about how much stupider everyone else is. Imagine finding the architectural plans for some of the greatest structure in antiquity.

>handy torch
In a library?
>nowhere to be found in absolute complete silence
Except for the hundreds of writers and philosophers and students chatting to each other

>>1342063

>tfw you drop the torch that you're for some reason carrying in a library and the whole thing burns down, so you blame it on the Romans

>>1342092
>for some reason

How precisely do you think the interiors of large structures were lit in the old days.

>>1342098
During the day skylights or windows, at night candles and braziers. Why would you use a torch? How would you set it down once you've selected a text you'd like to read? How would you adjust the light? people didn't hang torches on the walls like in Dungeons and Dragons or whatever.

>>1342098
largely by natural light. You may light lanterns and candles in rooms that you're working in, or carry a lantern with you, but you wouldn't walk around with a burning torch

>>1342103
This is actually an interesting point.

I think it's significantly harder to set fires with candles because they need liquid fuel that spills out when the candle is tipped over.

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>an inscription above the shelves read: The place of the cure of the soul.[4]

>>1342098
lamps, braziers, candles, etc. Torches make nasty smoke that makes you choke. You certainly don't want a bunch of them in an enclosed structure.

>>1342063
SO YOU'RE THE FUCKING ASSWIPE THAT DID IT.