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While planning the branch’s event schedule, Clark came across the idea in a book.
Clark thought library speed-dating would give millennials—generally, those in their 20s and 30s—a non-threatening option to traditional dating.
Libraries and archives were known to many ancient civilizations in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Syria, Asia Minor, and Greece, but the earliest such institutions were of a local and regional nature, primarily concerned with the conservation of their own particular traditions and heritage.
Books acquired in that manner were designated “from the ships.” Another story (reported by Galen in the writings on Hippocrates) reveals how Ptolemy III managed to obtain the original texts of the great dramatic poets Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides.Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article.Join Britannica's Publishing Partner Program and our community of experts to gain a global audience for your work!Those irregular methods of collection were supplemented by the purchase of books from different places, especially from Athens and Rhodes, which sustained the largest book markets of the time.
Occasionally, the library’s collectors bought different versions of the same work—for example, in the Homeric texts that came “from Chios,” “from Sinope,” and “from Massilia.” Of languages other than Greek, Egyptian had the largest section.Love and literature may be in the air at the SDG Library in Alexandria Thursday, June 13, when the branch holds its first Literary Speed Dating event.