亚历山大里亚图书馆与托勒密王朝的世界意识

The Alexandrian Library and the Ptolemies’Cosmopolis Consciousness

亚历山大大帝建立“世界帝国”之后,为适应对庞大帝国内不同民族的统治,需要建立含纳当时世界知识的图书馆。托勒密王朝统治者自视为亚历山大的继承人,征集“世界之书”,包括环地中海地区乃至“东方”文献,创建了当时世界规模最大的亚历山大里亚图书馆和博学园。汇集于此的学者整理、校勘、翻译了大量古代文献,推动了希腊化世界与近东文化的传播与融合。亚历山大里亚由此取代雅典,成为地中海世界文学与科学研究的中心,堪称历史上东西方文明互鉴的一个典范。

After the establishment of the“cosmopolis”,to Alexander the Great,the establishment of the“World Library”had become necessary in order to meet the needs of ruling the different ethnic groups in the unprecedented empire.Identifying themselves as Alexandre’s successors,the rulues of Ptolemies created Bibliotheca Alexandrina and Mouseion.For that,the Ptolemies collected as many as possible books throughout the world.With the help of Bibliotheca Alexandrina,the Ptolemies launched a project to preserve,collate,translate books,which contributed greatly to the preservation of Greek literature and the spreading of near Eastern culture in the Greek world.Alexandria thus replaced Athens as the center of literature and science in the Mediterranean world,as well as a center of multi-cultural coalescence.