From ancient emperors to modern presidents, leaders have used libraries to cement their legacies
Hayes. But the urge to shape one’s legacy by building a library runs much deeper. As a scholar of libraries in the Greek and Roman world, I was struck by the similarities between presidential and ...
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Archeologists Discovered The Remnants Of Germany’s Oldest Public Library In Cologne
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The First Library Rules: The Inscription of Pantainos in Ancient Athens
The Library of Pantainos in Roman Athens had perhaps the earliest known inscription in the world which laid out rules for the ...
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From ancient emperors to modern presidents, leaders have used libraries to cement their legacies
a great library in the center of Rome, was founded by Emperor Trajan, who ruled around the turn of the second century C.E. Referenced often by ancient authors, it could have been the first such ...