| Leaving the Stoa of Attalos through the doorway | | | | Menander head of the school, dedicated the outer |
| at its southwest corner, we ascend a few steps, | | | | porches, the peristyle, the library with its books |
| cross the street that led eastward from the | | | | and all the furnishings of the building from his own |
| ancient Agora to the Market of Caesar and | | | | resources along with his children Flavius Menander |
| Augustus (the Roman Agora) and immediately | | | | and Flavia Secundilla". The date is about AD 100. |
| find ourselves in the Library of Pantainos. The | | | | Pantainos the founder came of a well-to-do and |
| main room of the Library faced on the east side | | | | scholarly Athenian family. His building is a good |
| of a central colonnaded court which was closed | | | | example of a small public library of the imperial |
| on the south side by a wall, on the west and | | | | period. |
| north sides by rooms that looked outward and | | | | Street between the Classical and the Roman |
| were rented as shops. | | | | Agora Recent excavations have brought to light |
| Many of the stones from the Library were | | | | the eastward continuation of the marble-paved |
| re-used in the fortification wall of the 3rd century | | | | street that led from the ancient Agora to the |
| after Christ, a well preserved section of which still | | | | Market of Caesar and Augustus. On its south side, |
| overlies the west porch of the Library. | | | | which alone has been exposed thus far, the |
| Incorporated in the east face of this fortification is | | | | street was bordered by an Ionic colonnade; |
| the marble lintel from the main entrance to the | | | | behind this were rooms suitable for public offices |
| Library; it is inscibed as follows: "To Athena Polias | | | | or small sanctuaries. Between the columns of the |
| and to the Emperor Caesar Augustus Nerva | | | | colonnade are traces of pedestals for numerous |
| Trajan Germanicus and to the city of the | | | | statues. According to an inscription on the epistyle |
| Athenians, the priest of the Muses who love | | | | this "Broadway" was paid for by the people of |
| wisdom, T. Flavius Pantainos, son of Flavius | | | | Athens out of their regular revenues. |