Musaeum
Sign in to savethumb|upright|Muses|Muse statue, a common scholarly motif in the Hellenistic age.
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Vinony files it under 270s disestablishments in the Roman Empire, 3rd-century BC establishments in Egypt and 3rd-century disestablishments in Egypt.
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- Country
- Egypt
- Location
- Alexandria
- Image
- Ancientlibraryalex.jpg
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- Commons category
- Mouseion at Alexandria
- end time
- 0391-00-00
- start time
- 0300-00-00
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thumb|upright|Muses|Muse statue, a common scholarly motif in the Hellenistic age.
The Mouseion of Alexandria (; ), which arguably included the Library of Alexandria, was an institution said to have been founded by Ptolemy I Soter and his son Ptolemy II Philadelphus. Originally, the word mouseion meant any place that was dedicated to the Muses, often related to the study of music or poetry, but later associated with sites of learning such as Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum.
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