3D reconstruction of the Roman Library in Trajan time (reign 98-117)
The Bibliotheca Ulpia ("Ulpian Library") was a Roman library founded by the Emperor Trajan in AD 114 in the Forum of Trajan, located in ancient Rome. It was considered one of the most prominent and famous libraries of antiquity and became a major library in the Western World upon the destruction of the Library of Alexandria in the 3rd century. It is the only Roman library known to have survived until the Fall of Rome in the mid-fifth century.
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Info add by me: The library was named Ulpia because the emperor's name was Marcus Ulpius Trajanus, and he came from the Ulpii. The XXX Legion was also named Ulpia. Trajan was the last Roman emperor to conquer territories and the one who went the furthest. The Senate gave him the title Optimus, which means "The Best", and indeed he is among the greatest emperors in the entire history of Rome. In Romania, Trajan is considered the founder of the Romanian nation, Romanian language has a marked Latin root.
Pliny the Younger, who at the age of 16 saw the infamous eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, belonged to the close circle of the emperor Trajan. In Trajan's time, Pliny the Younger was already a renowned writer.
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