BIBLICAL LIBRARIES
mentioned in the New Testament as why not? At Athens also the archive (Metroon) and the Ptolemaeum gymnasium at least were still there in St. Paul's day and the library of Pergamon probably likewise, even if her chief treasures had been, as alleged, moved to Alexandria.
Of the library of Smyrna little is known save that it included with the library an "Homerium" which was doubtless a place of teaching to be compared with the Museums of Athens and Alexandria or to the Ptolemaeum and has "a quadrangular portico." Of other public libraries in Asia Minor in Roman times besides that of Ephesus, which falls rather late in the period and will be discussed later, not much is known save that there were several in Halicarnassus, that the library of Prusa was a memorial library and that the library of Soli which is mentioned in an inscription of apostolical times is there called "book-ward" (bibliophylacterion)
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