Library of Alexandria

Ancient Alexandria, Egypt

By Jocelyn Hitchcock, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom The Egyptian city of Alexandria was established in 331 BCE by its Eponymous founder, Alexander the Great. Despite its humble beginnings as a port city, Alexandria developed into one of the most prosperous metropolitan areas in the ancient world. It grew to boast such wonders like the library

Written on April 19, 2022 at 7:32 pm, by Jocelyn Hitchcock

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Categories: Places

Tags: Alexander the Great, Alexandria, Ancient Wonders of the World, Caesar, Cleopatra, Euclid, Library of Alexandria, Lighthouse of Alexandria, Marc Antony, Serapeum, Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

In Search of Cleopatra: The Early Years

By Mary Naples, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom Before apocryphally rolling out of the carpet and into legend, Cleopatra (69 BCE-30 BCE) already had a storied past. The twenty-one-year old and her thirteen-year old brother-husband Ptolemy XIII (62 BCE-47 BCE) ruled together for close to two years before said brother—under the influence of his overly ambitious

Written on July 16, 2021 at 3:06 pm, by Mary Naples

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Categories: Leaders, People

Tags: Alexander the Great, Cleopatra, Library of Alexandria, Mark Antony

The Herdsman of the Stars

By Danielle Alexander, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom Even to the modern mind, the starry abyss above us encourages a sense of awe and wonder. In the ancient times, they linked their mythos to the heavens and told tales of how the star clusters, or constellations, came to be. One of these constellations of the Northern

Written on January 22, 2020 at 12:10 pm, by Danielle Alexander

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Categories: Mythology

Tags: Athenian Icarius, Atlas, Bootes, Constellations, Dionysus, Library of Alexandria, Mount Eryx, mythology, Palace of Knossos, Ptolemy, Ursa Major, Ursa Minor, virgo, zeus

The Eternal City

Written by Brendan Heard, Author of the Decline and Fall of Western Art The Ptolemaic Dynasty of Egypt is a unique reference point in classical history. Most notably, our very notion of classical wisdom itself largely depends on this period, insofar as it played a role in the documentation, preservation, and accumulation of the wisdom

Written on September 27, 2019 at 9:48 am, by Brendan Heard

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Categories: History

Tags: Alexander the Great, Alexandria, Claudius Ptolemy, Cleopatra, Egypt, Euclid, Library of Alexandria, Ptolemy, The library of Alexandria

Ancient Alexandria, Egypt

By Jocelyn Hitchcock, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom The Egyptian city of Alexandria was established in 331 BCE by its Eponymous founder, Alexander the Great. Despite its humble beginnings as a port city, Alexandria developed into one of the most prosperous metropolitan areas in the ancient world. It grew to boast such wonders like the library

Written on March 5, 2019 at 5:32 pm, by Jocelyn Hitchcock

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Categories: Places

Tags: Alexander the Great, Alexandria, Ancient Wonders of the World, Caesar, Cleopatra, Euclid, Library of Alexandria, Lighthouse of Alexandria, Marc Antony, Serapeum, Seven Wonders of the Ancient World