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Aristotle's Lost Library: The Fire That Almost Ended Science
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Episode Aristotle's Lost Library: The Fire That Almost Ended Science
In this episode, we explore the tragic fate of Aristotle’s personal library at the Lyceum in Athens. For decades, scholars have debated what happened to these priceless texts after Andronicus of Rhodes compiled them in the first century BCE. We trace the journey of these manuscripts through the hands of Roman collectors, the chaos of the First Mithridatic War, and the sack of Rome by Sulla’s troops. You will hear about the specific volumes that survived, like the Organon and the biological treatises, and the ones that vanished into history. We also look at how the destruction of knowledge in antiquity shaped the medieval understanding of science and logic. Join Lucas and Luna as they uncover the physical reality of ancient book preservation, the role of slave librarians, and the accidental survival of Aristotle’s works through Arabic translations centuries later.
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