Rachel Alexander's Blog, page 249
March 16, 2019
rhymingtherapy:
Released from infernal restraint,Persephone arises renewed, her return awakening...
Released from infernal restraint,
Persephone arises renewed,
her return awakening
transformations in vibration & hue.
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Revelling in the pleasure
her season portends,
she adorns the fullness of her bounty
with the fire of netherworld gems.
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Hearts in hibernation are drawn
toward the arbor of her languorous thaw,
fervor that foreshadows the deep,
bleak Winter’s… passionate end.
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Rhymingtherapy - March 2019
(my photo taken Mt Tamborine Australia)
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Nini Theilade as Venus in the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo’s Bacchanale, choreographed by Leonide
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EVERY TIME SOMEONE BRINGS UP THE LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA I GET SO ANGRY.
but why
Because it got burned. All of that knowledge, lost forever.
The library was destroyed over 1000’s of years ago. The library consisted of thousands of scrolls and books about mathematics, engineering, physiology, geography, blueprints, medicine, plays, & important scriptures. Thinkers from all over the Mediterranean used to come to Alexandria to study.Most of the major work of civilization up until that point was lost. If the library still survived till this day, society may have been more advanced and we would sure know more about the ancient world.
That graphic grinds my gears every time I see it
romans.
Julius Caesar to be precise
Remember this when you’re conquering. Keep the books.
THIS HURTS MY HEART SO MUCH EVERY TIME ITS BROUGHT UP
Julius Caesar needs to be stabbed for this
I know we should totally stab Caesar
Does March 15th sound good for everyone??
hey everyone, guess what day it is
Julius Caesar did NOT burn down the Library.The Library went untouched during The Seige of Alexandria in 47 BCE. Julius Caesar, like his predecessors and forebearers, viewed the library for what it was: a sacred center of knowledge and worship. And burning it down would have destabilized his legitimization of Cleopatra Ptolemy.
If you want to know who destroyed the library, that would be Cyril of Alexandria and his fanatical followers in 415 CE.
They believed that all writings that were not scripture were pagan idolatry. So all the science, mathematics, and philosophy of the era were kindling for the pyre. After all… why bother with the workings of the natural world and human knowledge when the world is supposed to end with this generation?
They took Hypatia, a scientist, mathematician and the keeper of the library, from her liter, stripped her of her clothes, stoned her to death, and flayed her flesh from her bones with oyster shells
The library was burned, and with it the collected wealth of knowledge from all of western civilization up to that time. Hypatia was forgotten and Cyril was beatified as a saint.
“The glory of the Alexandrian Library is a dim memory. Its last remnants were destroyed soon after Hypatia’s death. It was as if the entire civilization had undergone some self-inflicted brain surgery, and most of its memories, discoveries, ideas and passions were extinguished irrevocably. The loss was incalculable. In some cases, we know only the tantalizing titles of the works that were destroyed. In most cases, we know neither the titles nor the authors. We do know that of the 123 plays of Sophocles in the Library, only seven survived. One of those seven is Oedipus Rex. Similar numbers apply to the works of Aeschylus and Euripides. It is a little as if the only surviving works of a man named William Shakespeare were Coriolanus and A Winter’s Tale, but we had heard that he had written certain other plays, unknown to us but apparently prized in his time, works entitled Hamlet, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet.”
— Carl Sagan, “Who Speaks for Earth?”
@therkalexander omg thank you! I was actually going to post something similar - I reblogged it on mobile so I wouldn’t lose it with the plan to go back and edit it later. As always, you are phenomenal
