THE GREEK PERIOD
nasium) in the Academy, in view of the Oriental, the Egyptian, and the later Attic history of education, seems to involve a library of learning and literature there and in Solon's time there were three gymnasia; Academy, Lykeion, Herakleion. The exploration of ancient libraries has probably gone far enough since 1886 to allow one to declare the rule that the College or University under whatever name and everywhere whether Museum, Gymnasium (cf. German, Gymnasium), Lyceum (cf. French, Lycée), Academy, "grammar school," often Athenaeum and perhaps also Odeum, imply a library. The most famous and direct evidence as to these is perhaps the later Ptolemaeon, to whose library the University students (ephebes) contributed, according to the inscriptions, 100 books annually, but there are many clues pointing to the fact that, wherever scholars are known to have walked and talked together in a colon-
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