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Ancient Libraries in Rome: Reconstruction of the Bibliotheca of the Templum Pacis

Dr. Pier Luigi Tucci, Johns Hopkins University

The Templum Pacis (Temple of Peace) was built by the Flavian emperor Vespasian in 75 CE near the Roman Forum. It commemorated both the end of the Jewish war and the civil strife that had followed the death of Nero in 68 CE. The complex was remodeled under emperor Domitian and eventually restored by emperor Septimius Severus after the fire of 192 CE. Within this architectural

complex stood the Temple Library, which had sections on medicine, philosophy and history, and served as a center of culture in ancient Rome.

Josephus described the Temple of Peace as "adorned with paintings and statues by the greatest of the old masters...There too Vespasian laid up the golden vessels from the Temple of the Jews..." Pliny remarked, "Should we not mention among our truly noble buildings...the Temple of Peace - the most beautiful the world has ever seen?" Later, the historian Herodian described the Temple of Peace as "the largest and most beautiful of all the buildings in the city since it was adorned with offerings of gold and silver..."

Fresh archaeological evidence and literary sources shed new light on this monument and, in particular, on the "Library of Peace. "These buildings are all the more important for being among the most ambitious and sophisticated examples of large-scale architectural patronage in Classical antiquity."

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