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in 272 AD, although it is not known with certainty how much of the original buildings existed at the time. Scattered references in later sources suggest that another comparable institution was established in the 4th century at a different location, but little is known about its organisation and it is
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Despite the fact that the Mouseion continued as an institution under Roman rule, it never regained its former glory. Membership of the Mouseion was not limited to prominent scholars under the Roman emperors but included politicians, athletes, and other people rewarded for their support to the state.
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According to this description, the Mouseion featured a roofed walkway, an arcade of seats, and a communal dining room where scholars routinely ate and shared ideas. The building may have also hosted private study rooms, residential quarters, and lecture halls, based on
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The members of the Mouseion ensured the preservation and production of historical, literary, and scientific works, which would remain part of the Western heritage for centuries, and thanks to their efforts today one can still read Homer and the tragedians.
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that were built much later in Alexandria. However, it is unclear if the premises provided accommodations for anatomical research or astronomical observations. In addition to the Library of Alexandria, another smaller library was housed in the nearby
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It is uncertain how many scholars lived in the Mouseion at any given time, as surviving reports are few and rather brief. Nonetheless, it appears that scholars and staff members were salaried by the State and paid no taxes. According to
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The last known references to the old Mouseion still functioning occur in the 260s AD. The Brucheion, the complex of palaces and gardens that included the Mouseion, was probably destroyed by fire on the orders of Emperor
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and other similar activities took place there. In addition to Greek works, some foreign texts were translated from Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian,
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forward, exist in editions that were collated and corrected by the scholars assembled in the Mouseion and the Library of Alexandria.
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and other Byzantine sources do not mention any further directors after him, albeit four obscure 'caretakers' are mentioned in an
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Aristarchus of Samothrace, arguably the greatest grammarian of antiquity, who invented conventional signs nowadays used in
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reputedly established their Mouseion and Library with the intention of bringing together some of the best scholars of the
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Lee, Paula Young, "The Musaeum of Alexandria and the formation of the 'Museum' in eighteenth-century France," in
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and collect all the books known at the time. Although it did not imply a collection of works of art, the word
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The Ancient Library of Alexandria. A Model for Classical Scholarship in the Age of Million Book Libraries 1
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The relation of the institutions is still a matter of debate. The Mouseion is discussed by P.M. Fraser,
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and a polymath, who worked on literary criticism, philosophy, geography, and mathematics (e.g., his
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Hatzimichali, M. (2013). König, J.; Oikonomopoulou, A.; Oikonomopoulou, K.; Woolf, G. (eds.).
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described the Mouseion as part of a bigger, richly decorated campus of buildings and gardens:
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as "the man from the Mouseion," but it is not clear what connection he actually had with it.
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Did it burn or not? Caesar and the Great Library of Alexandria: a new look at the sources
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Based on extant works of scholars associated with the Mouseion, it seems likely that
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Herophilus: The Art of Medicine in Early Alexandria: Edition, Translation and Essays
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The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why It Had to Be Reborn
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There is no ancient source for the founding either of the Library or the Mouseion,
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added an additional building in the first century AD, and much later the emperor
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both speak of a physical space known as the "Mouseion" in the late 5th century.
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in 47 BC, parts of the library collection caught fire and were destroyed.
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unlikely to have had the resources of its predecessor. The mathematician
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The Ptolemies founded the original Mouseion at a time of transition in
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The Library of Alexandria: Centre of learning in the ancient world,
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being appointed to the Library. There are reports that, during the
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of the royal family of the Ptolemies, and later by that of the
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Aristotle's school; a study of a Greek educational institution
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The Ptolemaic dynasty displayed these in their palace nearby.
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The Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran and the Concept of a Library
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of the Library of Alexandria, who laid the foundations for
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Buildings and structures completed in the 3rd century BC
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The life and fate of the ancient library of Alexandria,
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Buildings and structures demolished in the 3rd century
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The Life and Fate of the Ancient Library of Alexandria
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City and School in Late Antique Athens and Alexandria
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temporarily suspended Mouseion membership in 216 AD.
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Hellenistic educational and philosophical institution
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Index

Museion
The Temple of the Muses
Mouseion (journal)

Muse
Hellenistic age
Ancient Greek
Latin
Library of Alexandria
Ptolemy I Soter
Ptolemy II Philadelphus
Muses
Plato
Academy
Aristotle
Lyceum
Ptolemies
Hellenistic world
museum
Johannes Tzetzes
Alexandria
Egypt
Ptolemy II Philadelphus
patronage
Roman emperors
museum
Renaissance
Attalus
Library of Pergamum
Hellenistic world

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