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June 26, 1998 -- Ephesus
Library of Celsus

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About the library:

• Held 12,000 scrolls in niches around the wall
• Gaius Julius Celsus Polemaenus, Roman governor of Asia Minor in the 2nd century AD, was buried under the library, where he rests to this day.
• The niches on the façade held statues (now in Vienna's Ephesus Museum) representing the virtues:
  • Arete (Goodness)
  • Ennoia (Thought)
  • Episteme (Knowledge)
  • Sophia (Wisdom)