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01 / belief
“Like any great city, I find it has a vitality to it, which is quite energizing. It’s not a place that you go in search of the ancient past, I think.”
02 / belief
“Depended on where you lived, I think. If you were an urban dweller of Alexandria, you were living significantly above subsistence levels.”
03 / belief
“I think the understanding is there, but it’s shared amongst a fairly small group of experts.”
04 / belief
“I think when we look at the origins of these great civilizations, all within a few centuries of each other, there’s a combination of factors that each one individually perhaps wouldn’t have tipped the balance, but taken together they made a difference.”
05 / belief
“I think there are a lot more scholarly works, both surviving and lost, that were composed in ancient Alexandria that would be more surprising and more revelatory than those that you’ve just mentioned.”
06 / belief
“I think all of these ingredients just combined to make it the gift that kept on giving as far as the media were concerned.”