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Modern accounts of Ancient events are always suspect. I think the article makes a good point: The reliable pagan historian Ammianus Marcellinus has his opinion about the library (Roman History, Book 22.16.;12-13). He would not have failed to mention any great surviving library collection. Remember, Marcellinus was a near-contemporary of Hypatia. He was also a pagan, and certainly no Christian apologist. He would not have failed to mention a flourishing large library in Alexandria (three centuries after Caesar's destruction) if it still, in fact, existed. Here is Seneca's quote about the library from Seneca's De Tranquillitate Animi (On the tranquility of the mind) thought to be written during the years 49 to 62 A.D : The story about Hypatia's tragic death may have been an embellishment by the British writer Edward Gibbon in the late 1700s. Gibbon was someone who could always find fault with Christianity. (To be continued....) guy also known as gaius