Library of alexandria aesthetic

Artist's depiction of what the Library of Alexandria looked like

The great Library of Alexandria held more than 500,000 books. As a professor at the university, Hypatia played a conscious effort to preserve and to elucidate the great mathematical works of the Alexandrian heritage

The Great Library of Alexandria in Alexandria, Egypt, was one of the largest and most significant libraries of the ancient world. The idea of a universal library in Alexandria may have been proposed by Demetrius of Phalerum, an exiled Athenian statesman living in Alexandria, to Ptolemy I Soter. The Library quickly acquired a large number of papyrus scrolls, due largely to the Ptolemaic kings' aggressive and well-funded policies for procuring texts.

The Library of Alexandria was the cultural center which revolved the intellectual life of Hellenism. This institution gathered the largest collection of writings to date,