Nagy, Gregory2021-01-141998Nagy, Gregory. 1998. “The Library of Pergamon as a Classical Model (updated, online version).” In Pergamon: Citadel of the Gods (ed. H. Koester), Harvard Theological Studies 46: 185–232.https://nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.INSTREPOS:37366726This inquiry concerns the Library of Pergamon, not so much as a place or institution, but as an idea or concept, a classical model. This model, I hope to show, is a historical reality in its own right. I start by looking at the foundational principles that led to the conception of this library. Then I focus on Crates of Mallos, head of the Library at Pergamon in the middle of the second century BCE. My main question concerns the Library’s role or nonrole in the textual transmission of Aristotle and Homer.en-USJournal Article2021-01-14