BIBLICAL LIBRARIES
even the "tablet-collection" (pinacotheke) proves to be of pictures not writing. At Delphi, Dodona, etc., the evidence is more direct and is doubtless to be applied to all oracles, but the great temple library does not appear until it springs full fledged to view in the great temple library of Pergamon—yet it is likely that these existed at Athens and will sometime be identified. What is known of the decoration of the libraries of Pergamon, Ephesus, and Rome e.g. suggests the possibility that the Pompeion, which dates back to Demosthenes and Praxiteles, at least, may have contained the library of the Demeter temple, as it had statutes or paintings of Socrates, of Isocrates and of various writers of comedy, while Diogenes counted it as built for his peculiar dwelling place. Many temple treaties are known to have contained votive copies of literary works: Ephesus (Heraclitus), Delos (poems of Alcaeus, astronomy of Eudoxus), Delphi
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