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Institutional complex associated with the Library of Alexandria, part of the empire’s knowledge apparatus.
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He says the Library of Alexandria systemizes Greek knowledge into textbooks and functions as a university-like tool of empire, not merely education.
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"the world as well all right let's just tell them in a second and he and his father tell them in the first they..."
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"dollars as a deposit and the Athenians well that's a lot of money oh sure okay all right so the Athenians lend these scrolls..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Hellenistic World lecture: empire stabilizes itself into stagnation, borderlands beat it with energy and openness, Greece wins as a borderland, then becomes the empire whose universities, cities, and translations...
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