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1. Πειραματικό Λύκειο Αγ. Αναργύρων, Athens/1st Grade, 2009-2010 8. ΒΙΒΛΙΟΘΗΚΗBIBLIOTHECA/BIBLIOTHECE(Bybliotheca) from the word βίβλος/βύβλος (=papyrus, imported in Greece from the Phoenician city of Byblos)Libraries in the ancient Greek and Roman world

3. Aristotle amassed a large private collection in his school. Strabo (Στράβων), the ancient Greek geographer mentions that Aristotle was the first to have put together a collection of books and to have taught the kings in Egypt how to arrange a library (Γεωγραφικά/Geographica13.1.54.8).

4. Books were scrolls, mostly made of papyrus, but sometimes of leather. They were kept in pigeonholes with titles written on wooden tags hung from their outer ends.

9. Although already in the 2nd century BC Latin books circulated, the first Roman libraries consisted of Greek works that spread through the Roman world.

10. The Roman libraries were classified in two sections, according to what language books were written,in Greek or Latin. The idea to found a library with sections on Latin and Greek was Caesar's, who wished to equip Rome with a great public library.The Roman Libraries

12. When Trajan (98-117 AD) dedicated his monumental column in 112-113, a Library (sectioned into the Greek and Latin chambers) was part of the complex. The collection included about 20,000 volumes.

14. Vitruvius, De Architectura, 1.2.7 on the construction of Libraries itemnaturaedecorerit, sicubiculisetbybliothecisaborienteluminacapiuntur, balneisethibernaculisaboccidentehiberno, pinacothecisetquibuscertisluminibusopusestpartibus, aseptentrione […]. (F. Krohn. Lipsiae. B.G. Teubner. 1912) There will also be natural propriety in using an eastern light for bedrooms and libraries, a western light in winter for baths and winter apartments, and a northern light for picture galleries and other places in which a steady light is needed […] (Vitruvius: The Ten Books on Architecture. Morris Hicky Morgan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. London: HumphreyMilford. OxfordUniversityPress. 1914)

17. The public libraries, being beautifully constructed with splendid colonnade façades, through which they were ascending stairs, so that, more than merely entering a library one ascended into a “Temple of the Wisdom". Hadrian’s Library in Athens, 2nd century AD

18. The Library of Celsus in Ephesus, one of the most important Libraries in the Roman world, 2nd century AD Evdokia Romanou, student/Alexandra Melista, teacher