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Alexandria: The Greatest City (2010)
Mostly Fiction
26 September 2023 - 0 out of 1 users found this review helpful.
That Hypatia was killed by a Christian mob seems to be true. But she leaves you with the impression that the Christians also destroyed the Library by showing them tearing apart the Library when they kill Hypatia. From what I understand, the Library and the books (scrolls) were already gone at the time Hypatia was murdered by the city's Bishop and a mob of Christians. I think it was mostly Romans fighting over the city on a couple of different occasions, and much earlier, that destroyed all the books. For a documentary this is really lacking in facts. I think she just wanted to vent about what happened to Hypatia, so she conflates the two.
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