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**Styparty** · 04-16-2006, 05:35 AM

One more thing: the story of the destruction of the great library of Alexandria is not nearly as simple as Mina has suggested. Its collections had been destroyed or dispersed in stages, for one of which the responsibility falls on Theophilus and Cyril, the successive Patriarchs of Alexandria, as well as on a mob of Coptic monks who at the same time murdered Hypatia. More details can be found at
http://ehistory.osu.edu/world/artic les/ArticleView.cfm?AID=9
and
http://www.digital-brilliance.com/k ab/alex.htm

It is a sad but true fact that narrowmindedness, ignorance and fanaticism do appear with a depressing regularity in the history of every religious creed, and Orthodoxy is not exempt from this rule.

Best regards,

Mariusz Wesolowski

04-16-2006, 05:35 AM	#28
Styparty Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 604 Senior Member	One more thing: the story of the destruction of the great library of Alexandria is not nearly as simple as Mina has suggested. Its collections had been destroyed or dispersed in stages, for one of which the responsibility falls on Theophilus and Cyril, the successive Patriarchs of Alexandria, as well as on a mob of Coptic monks who at the same time murdered Hypatia. More details can be found at http://ehistory.osu.edu/world/artic les/ArticleView.cfm?AID=9 and http://www.digital-brilliance.com/k ab/alex.htm It is a sad but true fact that narrowmindedness, ignorance and fanaticism do appear with a depressing regularity in the history of every religious creed, and Orthodoxy is not exempt from this rule. Best regards, Mariusz Wesolowski
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