Properties (129)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| gptkbp:instanceOf |
Library
library |
| gptkbp:associatedWith |
gptkb:Museum_of_Alexandria
gptkb:ancient_Egypt Hellenistic period Cultural exchange ancient history ancient manuscripts Ptolemaic dynasty ancient texts ancient art ancient culture ancient religion ancient philosophy ancient astronomy ancient literature ancient mathematics ancient geography ancient technology scholarly debates ancient linguistics ancient medicine intellectual heritage ancient ethics ancient philosophers ancient politics ancient scholarship ancient science scrolls of papyrus ancient economics ancient historiography ancient aesthetics ancient anthropology ancient rhetoric ancient sociology cultural_exchange ancient_archaeology |
| gptkbp:collectionSize |
Hundreds of thousands of scrolls
hundreds of thousands of scrolls |
| gptkbp:culturalSignificance |
Center of learning
ancient knowledge preservation |
| gptkbp:defeated |
fire
Fire |
| gptkbp:establishedIn |
3rd century BC
|
| gptkbp:foundedBy |
gptkb:Ptolemy_I_Soter
|
| https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label |
Great Library of Alexandria
|
| gptkbp:influenced |
gptkb:Roman_libraries
Islamic Golden Age Roman_education |
| gptkbp:influencedBy |
Greek_culture
|
| gptkbp:knownFor |
Scientific research
scholarly research Philosophical discourse Ancient manuscripts Preservation of knowledge translation of texts collection of works from various cultures |
| gptkbp:legacy |
symbol of knowledge
inspiration for future libraries |
| gptkbp:location |
gptkb:Alexandria,_Egypt
gptkb:Alexandria |
| gptkbp:notableEvent |
Works of Aristotle
Works of Plato Works of Aristophanes Works of Cicero Works of Galen Works of Ptolemy works of Homer works of Plato Works of Aeschylus Works of Callimachus Works of Diodorus Siculus Works of Euripides Works of Hippocrates Works of Lucretius Works of Ovid Works of Pliny the Elder Works of Plutarch Works of Seneca Works of Sophocles Works of Strabo Works of Tacitus Works of Thucydides Works of Virgil Works of Homer Works of Appian Works of Arrian Works of Aulus Gellius Works of Cassius Dio Works of Cicero the Younger Works of Democritus Works of Gaius Julius Caesar Works of Josephus Works of Longinus Works of Lucian Works of Philostratus Works of Plautus Works of Polybius Works of Quintilian Works of Seneca the Elder Works of Seneca the Younger Works of Suetonius Works of Suetonius Tranquillus Works of Terence Works of Valerius Maximus Works of Vitruvius Works_of_Apollonius_of_Perga Works_of_Herodotus Works_of_Livy Works_of_Menander Works_of_Philo_of_Alexandria Works_of_Quintus_Curtius_Rufus works_of_Aristotle works_of_Democritus works_of_Galen works_of_Herodotus works_of_Hippocrates works_of_Ptolemy works_of_Thucydides |
| gptkbp:notableFeature |
gptkb:Heron_of_Alexandria
Archimedes Eratosthenes Euclid Callimachus |
| gptkbp:reduces |
1st century AD
Roman conquest |
| gptkbp:servedIn |
Research institution
research institution |
| gptkbp:typeOf |
Ancient_library
|