Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site tekig5.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!qantel!hplabs!tektronix!tekig5!davidl From: davidl@tekig5.UUCP (David Levadie) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Xtianity: What happened to the library at Alexandria? Message-ID: <179@tekig5.UUCP> Date: Fri, 2-Aug-85 19:58:15 EDT Article-I.D.: tekig5.179 Posted: Fri Aug 2 19:58:15 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 4-Aug-85 10:14:47 EDT References: <10@unc.UUCP> <41@unc.UUCP> <530@scc.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 9 ------- While we're on the subject of religious mayhem, I seem to recall a story from someplace about a massive library in Alexandria, Egypt sometime which contained a LOT of books and WHO KNOWS what else, that was lost, because a mob of Xtians led by SAINT CYRIL [genuflect, please] of Alexandria, after dragging Hypatia, the librarian, out into the street and murdering her, sacked the library and burned it. Refutations, please?