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A vast Roman building complex on the eastern edge of the Monastiraki square in central Athens, the Library of Hadrian was completed in 132 AD by the philhellene Roman emperor Hadrian as the principal cultural and educational facility of the Roman provincial capital. The building covered around twenty-three thousand square metres and was the largest single Roman building constructed anywhere in Greece during the imperial period. The emperor Hadrian had a particularly deep personal attachment to ...