Where is the Muse Palace?

The academic center of Hellenistic period moved from Athens to Alexandria. Alexandria is a port city built by Alexander the Great in his own name in northern Egypt. After Alexander's death, the city became the capital of Ptolemy. In 307 BC, Demetrius of Fallon, who ruled Athens at that time, was overthrown, and Ptolemy recruited him to Alexandria.

Demetrius was a first-generation descendant of Lv Keang College, Theo Flaster, and may also be a student of Aristotle himself. Under his impetus, Ptolemy built a museum in Alexandria? This is the origin of the term museum now, but the Muse Palace at that time had nothing to do with the display of exhibits.

The significance of Muse Palace:

As the name implies, Muse Palace is a temple dedicated to Muse, a series of gods in charge of art and science, including poetry and dance, as well as geometry and astronomy. But the Muse Palace in Alexandria is actually a large-scale research institute, which is devoted to the research of many scholars with the support of the royal family.

There are studios, lecture rooms, autopsy rooms, zoos and observatories in the Muse Palace. In addition, Alexander also built a large library, claiming to have 500,000 books. Of course, most of them were burned in the subsequent war.