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The National Library of Greece houses over 1.1 million items, 300 million electronic resources, and over 15,000 newspaper and magazine titles. [8] The library has 5,500 Greek manuscripts which is one of the greatest collection of Greek scrips. [9] There are also many chrysobulls and archives of the Greek Revolution.
The Library of Alexandria was not the first library of its kind. [3] [12] A long tradition of libraries existed in both Greece and in the ancient Near East. [13] [3] The earliest recorded archive of written materials comes from the ancient Sumerian city-state of Uruk in around 3400 BC, when writing had only just begun to develop. [14]
The Gennadius Library main building in Athens, designed by the American architects John Van Pelt and W. Stuart Thompson and inaugurated in 1926.. The Gennadius Library (Greek: Γεννάδειος Βιβλιοθήκη), also known as the Gennadeion, is one of the most important libraries in Greece, with over 110,000 volumes on Greek history, literature and art from Antiquity until modern times.
Hadrian's Library was a monumental building created by Roman Emperor Hadrian in AD 132 on the north side of the Acropolis of Athens. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The main entrance to the library was part of the Stoa of Hadrian with columns of Karystian marble and Pentelic capitals.
The Library of Celsus is considered an architectural marvel, and is one of the few remaining examples of great libraries of the ancient world located in the Roman Empire. It was the third-largest library in the Greco-Roman world behind only those of Alexandria and Pergamum, believed to have held around 12,000 scrolls. [5]
The library consisted of four rooms, the largest of which was the main reading room (44.5 ft × 50 ft (13.6 m × 15.2 m)), lined with many shelves. [7] An empty space of approximately 50 cm (20 in) was left between the outer walls and the shelves to allow for air circulation, intending to prevent the library from becoming overly humid in the ...
It includes new facilities for the National Library of Greece (NLG) and the Greek National Opera (GNO), as well as the 210,000 m 2 (2,300,000 sq ft) Stavros Niarchos Park. The center was designed by architect Renzo Piano and its construction was funded by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. The $861 million project was completed in 2016, and was ...
The Lilian Voudouri Music Library of Greece is a library located in Greece that specializes in music and was created under an initiative of the Friends of Music Society. [1] [2] The library opened to the public in February 1997. The library’s collection is primarily made up of western European music, going back to ancient Greek music.