The Great Library

While I was in the Ptolemaic Empire. Ptolemy had created The Great Library which was used to attract scholars and the cultured elite to his city. He only wanted the highest of smarts and the brightest to be around in the library. It was one of the bigger and greater libraries in the world as many I would come across would talk about how it carved the way scholars to succeed in this library. The only people you would find in the library were for a small community that qualified to be in there, it was not available to all the public. You could only just look at the library from outside and not go in. Over talking with people around the town I would hear that inside you could find the world's most knowledgeable and useful things such as growing and building a civilization, building items, and also even products or knowledge that could destroy the world and start world domination, but I'm sure that one was just a hoax since there was a lot of those of what was inside since not just anybody knew. But one thing that was true and for sure spreading was the fact that, "Eratosthenes, the head librarian at the Great Library in the second half of the third century BCE, who accurately calculated the earth’s circumference"

(Pg. 211). It was a huge feature to the library and widened rumors of what could be in the books. It was known that the books were in Greek so if you could not read Greek, you were not going to be able to read the books. It was known to have created the world's best doctors, writers, and philosophers. With so many books it made me wonder why they did not share it to the public, I suppose I will never know what is inside those books.