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Jiang uses the story of the Library of Alexandria taking Athenian manuscripts and forfeiting a huge silver deposit to show how Ptolemaic Egypt tried to make Alexandria the intellectual capital of the Greek world.
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Jiang uses the story of the Library of Alexandria taking Athenian manuscripts and forfeiting a huge silver deposit to show how Ptolemaic Egypt tried to make Alexandria the intellectual capital of the Greek world.
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"...the library of Alexandria. Mainly by going around and collecting original manuscripts. All right? So a representative went to Athens and said, we at..."
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"...we'll take the deposit, 15 talents, and we'll give you the manuscripts. The Egyptians took the manuscripts. Placed it in the library of Alexandria..."
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