The First Public Library ... It's Complicated

I just wanted to do a simple episode of what was… the first public library in history was, but no. No no no… of course… it’s complicated, complex and a bunch of historians are arguing what even is a library let alone the first library. But I did the research, I read, and combed through so, so much information just to give you the straight forward answer of, what was the first public library. Which changes depending on your definition of library. So here it is… the history and first’s? public library with some asterisks and how we got to it, all laid out in order and I’ll let you decide which was truly the first one.