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283 BC. Tolosa gold.
283 BC
With part of the gold from the sanctuary in Tolosa(Poseidonius version) the famous architect Xenarius is invited to Massalia to plan a massive expansion of the city. A new orthogonal grid sector is build. This conclude a new big theater with a seating capacity of nine thousands, a new gymnasium, a new arsenal, a naval arsenal and most important of all a huge mouseio*. This massive campus of more than ten buildings was second only to Alexandria’s mouseio. The Massalia mouseio was the home of music/poetry, a philosophical school and library, it did have a room devoted to the study of anatomy,geography,mathematics,philosophy and an installation for astronomical observations. It also worked close with the arsenal of the city. The mouseio featured a roofed walkway, an arcade of seats and a communal dining room where scholars routinely ate and shared ideas. The campus was also filled with private study rooms, residential quarters, lecture halls. More than two hundred scholars invited to lived in the mouseio. Staff members and scholars were salaried by the mouseio and paid no taxes. They also received free meals, free room and board, and free servants.
* Mouseio(museum) were institutes (universities) and the latest trend for influence, power and knowledge in the Hellenistic era.
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With part of the gold from the sanctuary in Tolosa(Poseidonius version) the famous architect Xenarius is invited to Massalia to plan a massive expansion of the city. A new orthogonal grid sector is build. This conclude a new big theater with a seating capacity of nine thousands, a new gymnasium, a new arsenal, a naval arsenal and most important of all a huge mouseio*. This massive campus of more than ten buildings was second only to Alexandria’s mouseio. The Massalia mouseio was the home of music/poetry, a philosophical school and library, it did have a room devoted to the study of anatomy,geography,mathematics,philosophy and an installation for astronomical observations. It also worked close with the arsenal of the city. The mouseio featured a roofed walkway, an arcade of seats and a communal dining room where scholars routinely ate and shared ideas. The campus was also filled with private study rooms, residential quarters, lecture halls. More than two hundred scholars invited to lived in the mouseio. Staff members and scholars were salaried by the mouseio and paid no taxes. They also received free meals, free room and board, and free servants.
* Mouseio(museum) were institutes (universities) and the latest trend for influence, power and knowledge in the Hellenistic era.
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Greece
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- Ptolemy II enlarges the library at Alexandria and appoints the grammarian Zenodotus to collect and edit all the Greek poets.
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