02-08-2008, 07:30 PM
Quote:The first mention of such a fire comes from more than 100 years after Caesar's time. I don't have the quote at hand but it reads something like "10,000 books were burned" when the Alexandrian fleet was set afire. Since Alexandria was the ancient world's greatest exporter of books this probably meant that warehouses containing books for export were burned. The destruction of the Alexandrian Library would have been considered an atrocity and surely Caesar's many, many enemies would have mentioned it had it really happened.
Yet there was nothing at all mentioned which is why I find any attempt to put the blame on Caesar as mere maneuvering to cover up the true culprit.
Oh and I am not trying to bash the medieval chuch for anything, they did quite a fine job of that all on their own. Remember more christians were killed by fellow christians than ever died at the hands of the romans.
Timothy Hanna
