WI: The Library of Rome

So, I just read that one of the things Caesar had wanted to do before getting assassinated was to construct a Library of Rome greater than that of Alexandria. What if he had gotten this started before his assassination?
 

Dirk

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There was already a bit of a start with Sulla's brand spanking new Tabularium (I forget if it was perhaps called by some other name), which tried to include the Republic's entire legal text and historical legal texts, as well as all of the most important (for state function) Latin works. Expand this to include any Latin, Greek, and perhaps even Egyptian, Persian, and Gallic works of law, poetry, mathematics, etc., and that's a wrap. It would take decades to implement due to the difficulty of gathering originals or even copies of all those works, but it can be done.
 
Augustus essentially did build a library of Rome based off of the library of Alexandria. Come to think of it, a lot of what he built was based off of what he saw in Alexandria.
 
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