These three images illustrate how the reconstructed Library of Pantainos and the surrounding area might have looked like during Roman rule. These are taken from the Ancient Athens 3D web site.

The first image is a raised view of the library with…

These three pictures are a reconstruction of the Library of Hadrian complex during the rule of the Roman emperor Hadrian from the Ancient Athens 3D web site.

The first image is a view of the library complex from the northwest.

The second image…

After the 267 sack of Athens by the Heruli, part of the Library of Hadrian's outer walls became part of the new walls of Athens. The so-called Tetraconch Church was built in what had been the pool in the courtyard of the library.

Built in the 5th…

Though housed in the Istanbul Archaeological Museum, this statue of Tiberius Julius Celsus Polemaeanus may have stood in the apse of his library in Ephesus.

It was not uncommon for Roman libraries to have statuary to the gods or benefactors. In…

Four photographs.

The first three photographs are examples of antefixes from Greek buildings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. These antefixes joined the tiles together as well as provided decoration.

The fourth photograph is a detail of the…

In 267 AD the Heruli, a Germanic tribe from beyond the Danube, broke through Rome's defenses and made their way down into Greece, where they sacked the city, completely destroying the Library of Pantainos and other buildings. As a result, the…

This is how the site of the Library of Pantainos looks today from Pikilis Street.

Between the trees can be seen part of the Herulian Wall, created from the spoila of the ruined buildings after the Heruli broke through the empire's defenses and…

Four photographs taken from Pikiis Street, the modern road, which covers the ancient road running between the Roman and Athenian agoras.

Photograph one is a view of the north stoa of the Library of Pantainos, which is marked on the right by the…

Two photographs. This is a capital from an Ionic column of the 5th century BC. The columns of the stoas of the Library of Pantainos were believed to have been Ionian columns.

The Ionic capital would have looked something like this, and was…

Two photographs.

This is the view from Pikilis Street, looking at an angle towards the agora. The north stoa rooms are in the foreground. The peristyle, which nearly all Greco-Roman libraries had, allowed visitors to use natural light to read the…