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Title: The Map of Knowledge
Author: Violet Moller
Narrator: Susan Duerden
Format: mp3
Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
Release date: 05-14-19
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 117 ratings
Genres: Medieval
Publisher's Summary:
The foundations of modern knowledge - philosophy, math, astronomy, geography - were laid by the Greeks, whose ideas were written on scrolls and stored in libraries across the Mediterranean and beyond. But as the vast Roman Empire disintegrated, so did appreciation of these precious texts. Christianity cast a shadow over so-called pagan thought, books were burned, and the library of Alexandria, the greatest repository of classical knowledge, was destroyed. Yet some texts did survive and The Map of Knowledge explores the role played by seven cities around the Mediterranean....
