¿Cómo era despertar en la ciudad más inteligente de la historia? En este video reconstruimos con inteligencia artificial un día completo en Alejandría del año 150 antes de Cristo: desde el amanecer junto al Faro más alto del mundo antiguo hasta la noche del simposio con filósofos, sacerdotes y comerciantes de todo el Mediterráneo.
Seguimos a Dionysios, un comerciante griego-alejandrino de cuarenta y dos años, a través de su casa, su barrio, los almacenes del puerto, el Museion, los baños públicos y la cena de sus invitados. Pero también nos adentramos en el barrio egipcio de Rhakotis, en la sinagoga del barrio judío Delta, en el Serapeion y en la Gran Biblioteca de Alejandría, que en este momento alberga más de setecientas mil obras.
📍 Época: 150 a.C. — Período helenístico tardío, reinado de Ptolomeo VI Filométor
📍 Lugar: Alejandría, Egipto ptolemaico
📍 Fuentes: Arqueología helenística, papiros del período ptolemaico, fuentes literarias griegas y latinas, investigaciones del Instituto de Arqueología Mediterránea
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Seguimos a Dionysios, un comerciante griego-alejandrino de cuarenta y dos años, a través de su casa, su barrio, los almacenes del puerto, el Museion, los baños públicos y la cena de sus invitados. Pero también nos adentramos en el barrio egipcio de Rhakotis, en la sinagoga del barrio judío Delta, en el Serapeion y en la Gran Biblioteca de Alejandría, que en este momento alberga más de setecientas mil obras.
📍 Época: 150 a.C. — Período helenístico tardío, reinado de Ptolomeo VI Filométor
📍 Lugar: Alejandría, Egipto ptolemaico
📍 Fuentes: Arqueología helenística, papiros del período ptolemaico, fuentes literarias griegas y latinas, investigaciones del Instituto de Arqueología Mediterránea
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00:00Imagine waking up before dawn in a city that has never completely stopped breathing.
00:05The air arrives salty from the north, laden with the smell of Nile mud and the sour perfume of
00:10the fishing nets that Greek fishermen have spread out to dry on the port walls since midnight.
00:17It is autumn, around the month the Greeks call Pyanepsion, and the year is approximately 150 BC.
00:25was.
00:25On the sea horizon to the northwest, a column of orange fire pierces the darkness.
00:30It is the lighthouse of Alexandria, fueled with cedar resin and sesame oil, turning its polished bronze light
00:37over the Mediterranean like an eye that never closes.
00:41It has been lit for more than 150 years and is almost 130 meters tall.
00:46When sailors spot it from the open sea, 40 kilometers away, they know they've reached the center.
00:52of the world.
00:53Ptolemy VI, the philometer, has ruled Egypt for three decades, supported by the broken staffs of a dynastic machine that already
01:01It smells of decay,
01:02but it still stands as the most amazing city ever built by human hands.
01:07Alexandria has between 300,000 and 500,000 inhabitants, distributed in five neighborhoods that bear the first five letters of the alphabet.
01:15Greek,
01:15Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon.
01:18The Delta neighborhood is home to the largest Jewish communities outside of Palestine,
01:23with its synagogues and its merchants and its theologians who within a few decades will finish translating the scriptures into
01:29Greek in what history will call the Bible of the 70s.
01:32In the Epsilon neighborhood, the Egyptians of ancient Recoti still speak Demotic and worship Serapis with the same
01:38hands with which they grind the papyrus to sell it to the rest of the world.
01:41This recreation has been built using artificial intelligence from historical, archaeological and papyrological sources from the late Hellenistic period.
01:50If you enjoy this type of content where history comes alive before your eyes,
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02:03The streets surrounding the port are already in full operation at dawn.
02:07There is no silence in Alexandria. The fish market has been open since early morning, illuminated by papyrus torches.
02:14impregnated in lamb fat.
02:16The newsboys shout in four languages simultaneously.
02:19Koine Greek, which everyone understands, mixed with the Aramaic of the Syrian merchants.
02:24The rudimentary Latin of the Roman ambassadors who already hover around here as observers of a power that is not yet
02:30dares to call itself imperial.
02:32And the constant murmur of Demotic Egyptian that colors any conversation with an ancient guttural sound like stone rubbed against
02:39stone.
02:40The white limestone paving stones brought from the Tura quarries are covered with a film of marine moisture.
02:46The bare feet of slaves carrying amphorae of wine from Rhodes and oil from Athens
02:52They produce a dull, constant sound on them, like a heart beating underground.
02:57Let's cross the threshold of one of those houses that open onto the secondary street that runs parallel to the
03:02major central artery,
03:04The Canopy Way, the axis that crosses the city from east to west with its 16 meters of width
03:09and its white marble colonnades tinged with violet shadows at this precise moment of dawn.
03:14These houses of the Greek merchant class are not ostentatious from the outside,
03:18brick facades plastered in white or yellowish ochre,
03:22small windows with wooden latticework to keep in the heat in winter and the coolness in summer,
03:27acacia doors reinforced with bronze fittings,
03:30nothing that would awaken the envy of the thief.
03:32What is shown is not to the street.
03:35The entrance hall, which the Greeks call proaulion, is small and dark and smells of old wood and lamp oil.
03:41Above the lintel is a small niche with a painted terracotta figure, Hermes.
03:46protector of merchants and travelers.
03:49Next to it, a small lead plaque with a magical inscription in distorted Greek
03:53bought from the neighborhood sorcerer for two drachmas.
03:56Protection against the evil eye and against debtors who do not pay.
04:00The floor is made of mortar inlaid with black and white pebbles forming a diamond pattern.
04:06There is a leather sandal hanging from a nail at hip height,
04:09sign that the master of the house is inside.
04:11Beyond the proaulion, the heart of the house opens up, the central courtyard, the aule.
04:16In Alexandria, where the mild Mediterranean climate makes a roof unnecessary,
04:20The hall is completely open to the sky.
04:22And this morning, that sky is still a dark blue, almost indigo,
04:26with the last star of the night resisting disappearing over the neighbor's roof.
04:31A cistern occupies the center of the courtyard,
04:34fed during the rainy season and supplemented by water brought by water carriers
04:38from the distribution channels that connect to the city's large underground aqueduct.
04:44A Ptolemaic engineering feat that runs beneath all of Alexandria at a depth of 8 meters
04:49and which would be, in any other Mediterranean city, the greatest architectural monument in the region.
04:56Nobody here pays particular attention to it.
04:58Around the courtyard run porticoed corridors with Doric columns of limestone painted wine red.
05:03There are terracotta planters with rosemary, mint, and bay leaves.
05:06A young fig tree grows in the southeast corner,
05:09planted by the grandfather of the current owner when he came from Rhodes three generations ago.
05:13The leaves still retain the night's dew.
05:17The rooms that open onto the courtyard follow a layout recognizable to any Greek.
05:22To the north, the andro, the men's hall, where the symposia are held,
05:28with its low divans and its three-legged tables and its kraters for mixing wine with water.
05:35To the south, the jinaicon, the women's space, with their looms, sewing boxes, and little mirrors
05:43bronze.
05:44To the east, the warehouse where the amphorae of oil are kept under lock and key,
05:48the grain sealed in linen sacks,
05:50the papyrus scrolls that the lord uses for his business accounts.
05:54The most important room, the one that opens directly onto the patio through a door with a frame painted ultramarine blue.
06:00Made with blue lacquer and ground material brought from Bactria,
06:02It is the oikos, the main room, where the family eats,
06:07It welcomes trusted guests and celebrates domestic rituals.
06:10On the back wall, in the most visible place, there is a lararium,
06:14a small altar with images of the household gods, the agatodaimones,
06:20represented here not as snakes according to Greek tradition,
06:23but as hybrid figures with a human body and a falcon's head.
06:27Because three generations of life in Egypt have mixed the pantheons without anyone keeping track.
06:34There are fresh flowers on the altar; someone got up very early to put them there.
06:39And who lives here?
06:41A papyrus and olive oil merchant named Dionysius,
06:44born in Alexandria to a Rhodian father and an Egyptian mother, whose Greek name was Berenike,
06:50but in the temple of her neighborhood she was known as Neferit.
06:53He is 42 years old, which in 150 BC makes him a middle-aged man with all
06:58the authority that this entails.
07:00He has four domestic slaves, three sons and one daughter.
07:03His fortune isn't huge, but it's solid.
07:07Enough to allow him to send his children to the mosselon for a few hours a day.
07:11Enough to buy a decent seat in the theater when Menander's plays are performed.
07:16Enough to sit in public restrooms among men who consider him their equal.
07:20Dawn brings prayer before breakfast.
07:23Dionysus gets up from his bed, a wooden frame with braided esparto rope
07:28on top of which rests a mattress of lamb's wool and goatskins,
07:31covered with linen blankets dyed light blue.
07:34The room smells of beeswax, cedar wood, and the olive oil from the lamp.
07:39which has burned all night by the door because Dionysius, like most Alexandrians,
07:45He doesn't sleep in complete darkness.
07:48He puts on an inner chiton of fine linen and over it an imation of Miletus wool,
07:53the most prized fabric of the eastern Mediterranean, bluish-gray in color,
07:57leggings, leather sandals with straps that cross over the ankle.
08:01She takes to her own domestic altar a handful of flour mixed with salt and honey,
08:05the oldest and simplest offering, and murmurs a short prayer to Serapis,
08:09the official god of Alexandria, a deity invented by the first Polemonium
08:13to unite the Greeks and the Egyptians under one devotion.
08:17Serapis has a Greek face and Egyptian attributes.
08:20It's a political solution disguised as theology, and it works perfectly.
08:26The Alexandrian breakfast in Lacratisms is sober and quick.
08:30Wheat bread that the slave Mirto went to buy before dawn at the bakery on the street
08:35parallel,
08:35where Egyptian workers work at night and sell hot bread from the first light.
08:40Bread soaked in watered-down wine with olives from the Marmarica coast preserved in brine
08:44and some dried figs that come from a merchant's ship in Caria.
08:47Sometimes there is goat cheese.
08:49There's nothing like a proper breakfast.
08:52"That's for the Persians and the barbarians of the east," Dionysius will say if anyone asks him.
08:57Although deep down he says it because of the market for exotic breakfast ingredients
09:02It's on the opposite side of the city, and the slave would have to get up much earlier.
09:07Dionysus' morning unfolds in the port and in the warehouses of the New York neighborhood,
09:12the industrial sector of the western port, the Eunostos.
09:15He has pending business dealings with a wine importer from Kos,
09:18a debt of 60 drachmas to a transporter in Cyprus
09:21and the management of a shipment of top-quality papyrus intended for the museum's scribes.
09:27Alexandrian papyrus is the best in the world because of the reeds that grow in the delta
09:31Under polemical control they are the tallest and most uniform
09:34And because the artisans of the workshop south of Lake Mareotis
09:38They have been perfecting the pressing technique for three centuries.
09:41until it produces almost transparent sheets on which the reed pen lets the ink run.
09:46without it running or breaking.
09:48The Yon Museum regularly buys huge quantities for its copyists.
09:52In its best years, the library has had up to 700,000 works on its shelves.
09:58Now, 150 years after its founding,
10:00It remains the largest repository of written knowledge in human history
10:03and he's still alive.
10:05But what does the museum look like from the inside?
10:08If Dionysius is lucky enough to personally deliver the papyrus cargo
10:12The supplies manager can take a look at the inner courtyard.
10:17A colonnade framed around a garden with cedar trees and marble benches.
10:22Men wearing linen cloaks, sitting on them,
10:26speaking with that relaxed intensity of someone who is in no hurry
10:29because his entire day is spent philosophizing.
10:31There are mathematicians who calculate the circumference of the earth
10:34using sticks and shadow angles.
10:36There are poets who review papyri with a frown.
10:39There is a doctor who has opened human corpses with royal permission.
10:42because Ptolemy III decided that knowing how the human body worked
10:45It was more important than the religious prohibition against touching it.
10:48Dionysus looks at them with a mixture of respect and a certain practical incomprehension.
10:52He's a very good storyteller.
10:54That seems sufficient to him for this life.
10:57Midday brings the Ariston, the midday meal.
11:01light but not superficial.
11:03Dionysius eats at home, where his wife Berenique, 34, is.
11:07and with the royal authority of one who manages a house and four slaves
11:10and three school-age children,
11:12He prepared what the market offered that morning.
11:16Cooked lentils with coriander and Egyptian cumin,
11:18bread with olive oil and sea salt,
11:20Mareotis lake shrimp fried in oil with garlic
11:23and a piece of goat cheese with thyme honey.
11:27The wine is from Rhodes, diluted with water in a ratio of one to two.
11:30because it's not a holiday.
11:32They eat sitting in the classroom,
11:33on low benches around a sycamore wood table,
11:37with the sky above their heads and the sound of the cistern water in the background.
11:40The children eat separately,
11:43supervised by the slave pedagogue,
11:45an elderly Greek named Sostratos,
11:47who in another life was a teacher in Corinth
11:49and who now teaches the children of Dionysus to read,
11:52to count,
11:53to recite Homer
11:54and to write with a reed pen on wax tablets
11:57before moving on to papyrus,
11:59which is expensive
12:00and it's not wasted on beginner mistakes.
12:03The afternoon has its own rhythms.
12:05Dionysus goes to the public baths,
12:08the balaneon,
12:09which are more luxurious in Alexandria
12:10than in any other Greek city
12:12because Ptolemy II Philadelphus
12:13He had them built with Pentelic marble
12:16and connection to underground aqueducts.
12:18The public restroom in your neighborhood
12:19It is a two-story building.
12:21On the ground floor,
12:22cold water pools
12:24with its covered walls
12:25blue and white tiles
12:27in geometric patterns.
12:29Upstairs,
12:31the steam rooms,
12:32with its warm ceramic floors
12:34under which hot air circulates
12:36in a hypocaust system
12:38adapted from Macedonian gymnasiums.
12:41The men gather here
12:43for more than just washing,
12:44to engage in minor politics,
12:46to do business
12:47which is not advisable to put in writing,
12:48to listen to the news
12:50that the sailors bring from Carthage,
12:52of Rhodes,
12:53from Rome,
12:53which is becoming
12:55increasingly present
12:56on the political horizon
12:57like a slow shadow
12:59but inexorable.
13:00The slaves scrape the skin
13:02of their masters with the refrain,
13:03the curved bronze scraper,
13:05and collect them in a small cup
13:07the oil mixed with sweat
13:09which they call gloyos.
13:10The doctors assure
13:11that rubbed on bruises
13:13helps to heal
13:14And there are those who sell it.
13:16in the markets.
13:17Dionysus prefers
13:18not knowing too much
13:19about secondary uses
13:20from his sweat.
13:21What does Alexandria smell like?
13:22on an autumn afternoon?
13:23Sea and spices.
13:25The ships that anchor
13:26in the royal port
13:27They bring pepper from Calicut,
13:29Ceylon cinnamon,
13:30Myrrh from Somalia,
13:31Indian turmeric.
13:32These spices arrive
13:33along the incense route
13:34and the Red Sea
13:35through the port of Berenice
13:37in the Erythraean Sea,
13:38transported by camels
13:39through the desert
13:40up to the Nile
13:41and then embarked
13:42downstream
13:42as far as Alexandria.
13:44The price
13:44of one kilo of black pepper
13:45in the market
13:46of the Canopi Trail
13:47equivalent to the salary
13:47of a week
13:48of a free craftsman.
13:49The city that buys them
13:51and resells them
13:51to the rest of the Mediterranean
13:52He knows perfectly well
13:53that privilege is worth
13:54and he defends it
13:55with a bureaucracy
13:56relentless customs officer
13:57to which no one
13:58nor the Roman ambassadors
14:00can outsmart
14:01without consequences.
14:02Dinner
14:03the one from Hypnon
14:04It begins when it sets
14:05the sun
14:06and can last
14:07until well into the evening
14:07the night
14:08if there are guests.
14:09There are some tonight
14:10a merchant
14:11of Pergamon
14:12who is passing through
14:13a scribe of the Motion
14:14who is a friend
14:15of the family
14:16for years
14:16and a minor priest
14:18of the temple of Isis
14:19who lives in the neighborhood
14:20and that it is presented
14:21always with a little
14:22gift of incense.
14:24The kitchen of the house
14:25a separate room
14:26from the main courtyard
14:27for reasons of smoke
14:28and fire risk
14:29It's at the back
14:30of the building
14:31attached to the back wall.
14:33It has a stove
14:33made of refractory brick
14:35with three guns
14:36fed
14:36with charcoal
14:37brought from the delta
14:38a large pot
14:39bronze
14:40hanging from a hook
14:41iron
14:41a clay oven
14:43for bread
14:43and the cakes
14:44and the preparations
14:45that need dry heat
14:46and a series of hooks
14:48on the wall
14:48from those that hang
14:49bunches of dried herbs
14:50oregano
14:51fennel
14:52alolva
14:52wild celery.
14:54The slave Mirto
14:55about 18 years old
14:56He was born in Syria
14:57and arrived in Alexandria
14:58after being captured
14:59in one of the campaigns
15:00northern Ptolemaic
15:01and cook better
15:03of what nobody
15:04in this house
15:05would dare
15:06to admit
15:06publicly.
15:08Tonight
15:08prepare sole
15:09of the Mediterranean
15:10stew with wine
15:11from Lesbos
15:11and olives
15:12barley bread
15:13with sesame
15:14a stew
15:15lamb
15:15with dried plums
15:17and pepper
15:18that the Greeks
15:18They call
15:19glikipicron
15:20the recipe
15:20bittersweet
15:21and for dessert
15:23honey with nuts
15:24and a piece
15:24of polecat
15:25made with seeds
15:26ground sesame
15:27and concentrated honey
15:28a preparation
15:29that the Egyptians
15:30They call
15:30sesame croquettes
15:31and that the Greeks
15:32have adopted
15:33with enthusiasm
15:33that reserve
15:34to everything
15:35sweet and cheap.
15:36There is wine
15:36from Kios
15:37the best
15:38of the night
15:39and wine
15:40of the coast
15:40of the delta
15:41rougher
15:42but local
15:42they mix
15:43in
15:44the crater
15:45with water
15:45always with water
15:46Why drink wine?
15:47undiluted
15:48It's barbaric.
15:49or of children
15:49that they don't know
15:50what they do
15:50the conversation
15:51tabletop
15:52that's what the Greeks
15:53consider
15:53the true purpose
15:55dinner
15:55the scribe of Muxion
15:56brings news
15:57of a new papyrus
15:58arrived from Antioch
15:59a copy
16:00of a treaty
16:00of medicine
16:01of Herophilus
16:01who was thought to be lost
16:02the merchant
16:03of Pergamon
16:04talks about the works
16:05that the king
16:05Eumenes II
16:06is building
16:07in your city
16:08trying to create
16:09a second library
16:11in Alexandria
16:12and everyone at the table
16:13They laugh with smugness
16:14involuntary
16:15who lives off
16:16in the center
16:16and contemplates
16:17the attempts
16:18peripherals
16:18the priest of Isis
16:20speaks of the rites
16:21of purification
16:22next month
16:23of the procession
16:24of the goddess
16:24through the channel
16:25of the songs
16:26in Ancient Egyptian
16:27that very few
16:28Alexandrians
16:29They understand now
16:29but that produce
16:30in all
16:31an emotion
16:31that none
16:32I would be able to explain
16:33Dionysus
16:34it is heard more
16:35what he's talking about
16:35He is a practical man.
16:37who knows that
16:37the best investment
16:38what can you do
16:39at these dinners
16:39is to know
16:40who benefits
16:41know
16:42the children
16:43They had dinner earlier
16:44and they are already asleep
16:45in the Hinaikon
16:46on mats
16:47straw
16:47on the ground
16:48with his mother
16:49the older children
16:5012 and 10 years old
16:52They sleep on a cot.
16:53wooden
16:54with a single
16:54wool blanket
16:55the youngest daughter
16:567 years old
16:57sleeps with a doll
16:58terracotta
16:59articulated
17:00with arms
17:01and legs
17:01that move
17:02thanks to small
17:03bronze threads
17:03a toy
17:05that Dionysus
17:06bought at the market
17:07of artisans
17:07from the neighborhood
17:08of the New Yorkers
17:09and that cost
17:10more than it should
17:11but that produces
17:12in the girl
17:12a happiness
17:13so genuine
17:14that the price
17:14It was justified
17:15no discussion
17:16the male children
17:17They also have toys
17:19wooden tops
17:20leather balls
17:22filled with sand
17:23a set
17:24of astragalus
17:25the ossicles
17:27of the ankle
17:28lamb
17:28that are useful
17:30to play
17:30at random
17:31and calculate
17:32probabilities
17:33in Alexandria
17:34rich kids
17:35They also have
17:35miniature boats
17:36with fabric candles
17:37that float
17:38in the courtyard cistern
17:39knowledge of the sea
17:41start young
17:41at the end of the night
17:43when the guests
17:44They've left
17:45and the slaves
17:45They have cleared the tables
17:47and turned off the lamps
17:48of oil
17:48except the one that burns
17:50next to the door
17:50of the larary
17:51Dionysus sits down
17:52just a moment
17:53on the patio bench
17:54The lighthouse is still burning
17:56in the distance
17:57barely visible
17:58like a glow
17:59orange
17:59on the rooftops
18:00the city
18:01murmurs in the darkness
18:02with the sound
18:03indistinct
18:04of 200,000 people
18:05sleeping
18:06moving
18:06whispering
18:07from the channel
18:08The scent of the Nile arrives
18:09that mixture
18:10unmistakable
18:11of slime
18:11and plant life
18:12that the Alexandrians
18:13they have been around for generations
18:14breathing
18:15without knowing anymore
18:15who do it
18:16on the altar
18:17from the patio
18:18the flame
18:19of the votive lamp
18:20trembles in the breeze
18:21that comes from the sea
18:22this city
18:23he won't know
18:23which is unique
18:24until it ceases to be so
18:25in less than two centuries
18:26the Romans
18:28will administer
18:28this port
18:29with efficiency
18:30brutal
18:30from whom he conquers
18:31what she admires
18:32the library
18:33will suffer its first
18:34accidental fire
18:35during the wars
18:36of Julius Caesar
18:37many of the voices
18:38that fill these streets
18:39the Greek
18:40mixed with Aramaic
18:41mixed with demotic
18:43Egyptian
18:44they will fall silent
18:45one by one
18:45until only one remains
18:46Latin and then
18:47the Arabic
18:47and then silence
18:48of what was
18:49But tonight
18:50in the year 150
18:51before our era
18:52Alexandria
18:53It's always the same
18:54he dreamed of being Alexander
18:55when he planted his staff
18:56on the sand of this beach
18:57180 years ago
18:58and said
18:59here
19:00here
19:01will be the city
19:01It's the lighthouse
19:02brighter
19:03intelligence
19:04collective human
19:04never turned on
19:05in the ancient world
19:06and he still doesn't know
19:07that can be turned off
19:08if this trip
19:09to the heart
19:10from the Mediterranean
19:10Hellenistic
19:11has something moved you
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19:18this heavy air
19:20of papyrus
19:20and spices
19:21and ambition
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19:23What a world!
19:25forgotten
19:25would you like to explore
19:26Carthage
19:27that Rome destroyed
19:28Baghdad
19:29of the Abbasid Caliphate
19:30the Japanese Edo
19:32of the samurai
19:33and the merchants
19:34We rebuilt it
19:36up to you
19:37Where are we going?
19:38Where are we going?
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