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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Herberto, post: 2785212, member: 74222&quot;]I want you to post any coins related to the legends of the Library or anything relation to these myths about supposedly destruction of library or school.</p><p><br /></p><p>Let me try:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Theodosius, nummus, size the same as little fingernail.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]645400[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The myth says that Theodosius ordered the destruction of the Famous Library of Alexandria, and thus Bishop Theophilus of Alexandria destroyed a gwait gwait gwait library in 391 CE. – The reality is that the famous Library was already destroyed by Julius Caesar in 47 BCE. What Theophilus destroyed was Serapeum, which is a pagan temple and not the famous library.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Theodosius II, Solidus.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]645404[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The myth says that his reign marked the destruction of the Library and that Hypatia was killed because she loved science in which the early Christians despised. It was Carl Sagan, a non-historian, who spread this myth on the TV program called “Cosmos”. – The reality is that the library was already destroyed 400-500 years earlier by Pagan Julius Caesar. Hypatia was killed simple because of political reason as she allied herself with prefect Orestes. She was not a martyr for science. The science pretty much continued in the hands of Christians such in Byzantine Empire or within the monasteries in western Europe that was overrun by Pagan Barbarians. These pagan Barbarians in contrary showed almost no interests in science until they converted into Christianity, in which just underlines how flawed it is to assert that the early Christians despised science.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Justinian, 16-nummi of Thessaloniki(size as Solidus), Decanummi of Ravenna(lesser than Solidus), and a Solidus:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]645401[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]645402[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]645402[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]645405[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The myth says that Justinian ordered the shutdown of the school of Plato after 800 years continuity because he was Christian and thus hate science. – The reality is that the school of Plato was already destroyed by Sulla in the first centuries BCC. It was “rebuilt” 500 years later by Neoplatonists who attacked Christianity, which was the reason why Justinian shut it down (of course, what should he do?). Other schools in Constantinople and Alexandria, that did not attack Christianity, continued. Furthermore there is no institutional continuity between Plato’s school and that later “rebuilt” school of Neoplatonist.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Manuel II Paleologus, third last Byzantine emperor. A follaro small as little fingernail, and a half Stavraton 22mm:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]645403[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]645407[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It is said that before or after the Fall of Constantinople many Greek scholars flee to North Italy, and thus fueled the Renaissance. – This is fully true. It happened because they did not destroy classical works and burnt libraries. If they were some crazy book-burners with despise for culture I would surely not have indulgenced myself into Byzantine numismatic hobby.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>If any has coins of Ptolemy Soter or his son, or Cleopatra and Antony I would gladly see how they are. – Otherwise post any coins related to the topic and it is optional whether you can link it or not to the actual history.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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