What exactly was in the library of alexandria? I know the actual

It was said to have housed 700,000 rolls together with all the books of the Gnostic Basilides, Porphyry’s 36 volumes, papyrus rolls of 27 schools of the Mysteries, and 270,000 ancient documents gathered by Ptolemy Philadelphus.

Is it true that the majority of the library was aristocratic dissertations on the Illiad?

>>1863019
it was when I was there,
It might have changed though

>>1862943
Poor librarians. It must have been utterly devastating to them.

>>1862943
It looked nothing like that

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>>1862943
>I know the actual texts burned
Do you?

>>1863097
Fuck them. They were mafia cunts running an IP theft scam. They literally pirated intellectual property. There's a reason it was burned half a dozen times.

>>1864546
this
every boat that came into port was asked to donate any scrolls or volumes they had on board to the library.
if they didnt, and there were writings on board and the library really wanted them, they just took them. sometimes by force.
it mattered not. for the sake o knowlege

>>1864629
They were returned after copying,the library was a research and teaching institution more like a modern university than a modern library. It disseminated knowledge as well as storing it.

At Alexandria Eratosthenes measured the diameter of the Earth, Euclid discovered the rules of geometry, and Archimedes invented the screw-shaped water pump that is still in use today.

Ptolemy wrote the Almagest at Alexandria. It was the most influential scientific book about the nature of the Universe for 1,500 years.

>>1864629
>tfw no violent bibliocracy thirsty for foreign knowledge
Why even read?