Next, to the south, was the Library--with stores of papyri worth more perhaps to the world than all the architecture of Pergamon.

The middle of the crescent held the shrine of Athena, goddess of Pergamon, and beside it the Altar of Zeus the Saviour, gigantic in size, splendid with sculpture, itself the equal of an Acropolis.

Lastly, the southern or lower end of the ridge bore a temple of Dionysus and an Agora for Assemblies.
[38] Ephesus, refounded by Lysimachus about 281 B.C., might perhaps be another.

But the repeated excavations there, though they have taught us much about the temples and other large edifices of the great city, seem to have left the streets comparatively unexplored.
These buildings ringed the hill-top in stately semi-circle; below them, a theatre was hewn out of the slopes and a terrace 250 yds.

long was held up by buttresses against precipitous cliffs.