Incanus
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I have a short story idea I’m developing that involves two or three librarians/scribes who work in the famous Great Library of Alexandria, around the first or second century A.D.
From what I can tell about this place at this time, the city was pretty eclectic and multi-cultural. It was founded (more or less) by Alexander the Great, it’s located in Egypt, had a huge Jewish population, and (I’m not sure about this) may have been a part of the Roman Empire at this time.
I’m guessing that most of the librarians would have been Greek, but could there have been librarians of these other cultures there as well? Could I, say, credibly have the librarians be Roman? Or is it possible all of these cultures were represented at the library?
The gods are to play a role in this story and I’m trying to figure out which pantheon I should be using. Or could I use gods from multiple pantheons, because they’d all be pretty familiar in such a city?
From what I can tell about this place at this time, the city was pretty eclectic and multi-cultural. It was founded (more or less) by Alexander the Great, it’s located in Egypt, had a huge Jewish population, and (I’m not sure about this) may have been a part of the Roman Empire at this time.
I’m guessing that most of the librarians would have been Greek, but could there have been librarians of these other cultures there as well? Could I, say, credibly have the librarians be Roman? Or is it possible all of these cultures were represented at the library?
The gods are to play a role in this story and I’m trying to figure out which pantheon I should be using. Or could I use gods from multiple pantheons, because they’d all be pretty familiar in such a city?