In this episode, the Sick Man goes looking for the greatest library the ancient world ever built - and finds out how little of it actually made it to us.
Hundreds of thousands of scrolls. Centuries of mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, entire plays we’ll never read. Gone, mostly, long before anyone could agree on who to blame.
It’s a story about how knowledge disappears - not in one dramatic fire, but through decades of neglect and war nobody thought to stop in time. And about a lifelong, slightly unreasonable love of books that makes losing any of it feel personal.
Along the way: a desperate man with an urgent and deeply undignified problem, several centuries of finger-pointing, and the one piece of ancient wisdom we know for certain reached the person who needed it.
This is the Library of Alexandria.
Host: Brad Cartner
Show Producer: Greg O’Brien
Sound Engineer: Derek Welsman
Music: Brad Cartner
Officer Wilfert: Adam Carter
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