Episode 84

In this episode, the Sick Man goes looking for the greatest library the ancient world ever built - and finds out how little of it actually made it to us. Hundreds of thousands of scrolls. Centuries of mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, entire plays we’ll never read. Gone, mostly, long before anyone could agree on who to blame. It’s a story about how knowledge disappears - not in one dramatic fire, but through decades of neglect and war nobody thought to stop in time. And about a ...