Second only to the great library of Alexandria, the Library of Pergamon is a monument to learning and ambition. Within its walls are gathered thousands of scrolls: works of philosophy, science, poetry, and history, painstakingly collected by kings eager to make Pergamon the envy of the Hellenistic world.

Scholars and scribes labour day and night, copying rare texts onto fine parchment, an invention perfected here. The library is not merely a storehouse of knowledge but a symbol of the city’s refinement and power: a place where culture and statecraft meet, and where ideas become as potent as armies.

• Provides a Ludus Magna in Pergamon from the start of the campaign