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    Letter from Cleopatra to Caesar
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    Author: * Messalina Terentius - 2 Posts on this thread out of 729 Posts sitewide.
    Date: Mar 7, 2005 - 21:19

    My Dear Caesar:

    How pleased I was to receive your little note today. I see by your questions that you are always the student of learning.
    Well, to answer your question the Great Library is indeed a wonder in and of itself. It was begun by my ancestor Ptolemy I when he came to the site that Alexander had mapped out to become the Alexandria of today. When, as you may know he took Egypt for himself upon the death of Alexander he brought with him many volumes from Babylon. That was the seed for the library. Today it boasts copies and originals of every book ever written. Even a copy of your Commentaries on Gaul is there. It boasts all the Greek and Roman plays, Commentaries by the great minds of the last two thousand years of Egypt, Greece and the East as well as the so called “Book of Books”. One book of particular interest to me is the Testament of The Hebrew god. They call him Yahweh. And I am please to say that there you may find the most interesting accounts of the Hebrews in Egypt thousands of years ago. Though I cannot find anywhere in our history any mention of this Moses. It is an interesting and powerful story though I think it is just a myth grown out of some grain of possible truth.
    I would be glad to send to you some of my scholars and architects to help you with your plan for a similar library in Rome. It would be a lovely gift to the Roman people from Egypt and further secure our good will.
    There are also many other wonderful sights here in the City. The great Musion, the Lighthouse, temple of Serapis with it’s own libraries, and the tomb of Alexander the Great. That is something I am sure you would find interesting to visit when you find the time to come to Egypt.
    For the time being we will have to do with your kind letters.

    Cleopatra


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