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Uploaded: 15 Apr 2013 (14 years ago) · Shared: 24 Aug 2018
Duration: 46:34
Uploaded: 15 Apr 2013 (14 years ago) · Shared: 24 Aug 2018
Duration: 46:34
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In 391 AD, a pivotal moment in early history unfolded when Roman Emperor Theodosius formally outlawed paganism, fundamentally altering the religious and cultural landscape of the ancient world. This monumental decree marked a dramatic shift in imperial policy, leading to the targeting and ultimate destruction of the legendary Library of Alexandria in Egypt. Originally established under Ptolemy I Soter, this celebrated
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What is the Library of Alexandria?The Library of Alexandria was a renowned institution of learning in ancient Alexandria, Egypt, established in the 3rd century BCE. It was a part of the larger Mouseion, a research institute dedicated to the Muses. The library is famous for its vast collection of scrolls and its role as a center for scholarship, but it is also shrouded in mystery, particularly regarding its destruction.
What is Pagan?Paganism is a term first used in the fourth century by early Christians. It was applied on populations of the Roman Empire who practiced polytheism, either because they were increasingly rural and provincial relative to the Christian population or because they were not milites Christi (soldiers of Christ). Alternate terms in Christian texts for the same group were hellene, gentile, and heathen. Pagan and paganism were pejorative terms for the same polytheistic group, implying its inferiority. Paganism has broadly connoted the "religion of the peasantry", and for much of its history was a derogatory term. Both during and after the Middle Ages, pagan was a pejorative term that was applied to any non-Abrahamic or unfamiliar religion, and the term presumed a belief in false god(s).
What is Roman?In historiography, ancient Rome is Roman civilization. From the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, encompassing the Roman Kingdom, Roman Republic and Roman Empire until the fall of the western empire. The civilization began as an Italic settlement in the Italian peninsula, dating from the 8th century BC, that grew into the city of Rome and which subsequently gave its name to the empire over which it ruled and to the widespread civilisation the empire developed. The Roman empire expanded to become one of the largest empires in the ancient world, though still ruled from the city, with an estimated 50 to 90 million inhabitants (roughly 20% of the world's population) and covering 5.0 million square kilometres at its height in AD 117.
