ANCIENT LIBRARIES.
’lTie Hebrews had their libraries, and Dsniandvas, King of Egypt, tod a Htrary built in his palace; a into hLmj the Ptolemies. The firs 3 who erected a library at. Athens, was tl>>- tvraut Pisistratus: it was transjmrtod by Xerxes iitto Persia, and was afterwards brought back by Sel?ucus Nicanor .to Athens. The library of Ptoleinv Philadelpbus contained several hundred thousand volumes, al! in rolls, burnt by Caesar’s soldiers. Constantine. erected a magnificent one at Conshantinonle, which was burnt by order of Leo Isaurus; in which were the Iliad and Gdvssey. written in letters of gold, on tlie gut of a serpent. The most cele-bra::-ed libraries of Rome were the Ulpian and the Palatine. A second library was formed from the remains of the first at Alexandria, and reputed to have consisted of 700.000 volumes, which was totally destroyed by the Saracens, who heated the Water of their baths for six months, by burning books instead of wood, by command of Omar, Caliph of the Saracens.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 99, 8 April 1911, Page 1 (Supplement)
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168ANCIENT LIBRARIES. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 99, 8 April 1911, Page 1 (Supplement)
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