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"The circulation of books was the motor of classical civilization. But books were both expensive and rare, and so libraries - private and public, royal and civic - played key roles in articulating intellectual life. This collection, written by an international team of scholars, presents a funda...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: König, Jason, Oikonomopoulou, Aikaterini, 1977-, Woolf, Greg
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Temas:
To 400
Libraries > History > To 400.
Bibliothèques > Histoire > Jusqu'à 400.
HISTORY > General.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Publishing.
Libraries
Bibliothek
Antike
Griechenland > Altertum
Römisches Reich
Ägypten > Altertum
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Libraries in ancient Egypt / Kim Ryholt
  • 2. Reading the libraries of Assyria and Babylonia /Eleanor Robson
  • 3. Fragments of a history of ancient libraries / Christian Jacob
  • 4. Men and books in fourth-century BC Athens / Massimo Pinto
  • 5. From text to text: the impact of the Alexandrian Library on the work of Hellenistic poets / Annette Harder
  • 6. Where was the Royal Library of Pergamon? An institution found and lost again / Gaelle Coqueugniot
  • 7. Priests, patrons and playwrights: libraries in Rome before 168 BC / Mike Affleck
  • 8. Libraries in a Greek working life: Dionysius of Halicarnassus, a case study in Rome / Daniel Hogg
  • 9. Libraries and intellectual debate in the Late Republic: the case of the Aristotelian corpus / Fabio Tutrone
  • 10. Ashes to ashes? The Library of Alexandria after 48 BC / Myrto Hatzimichali
  • 11. The non-Philodemus book collection in the Villa of the Papyri / George W. Houston
  • 12. 'Beware of promising your library to anyone': assembling a private library at Rome / T. Keith Dix
  • 13. Libraries for the Caesars / Ewen Bowie
  • 14. Roman libraries in the city of Rome / Matthew Nicholls
  • 15. Flavian libraries in the city of Rome/ Pier Luigi Tucci
  • 16. Archives, books and sacred space in Rome / Richard Neudecker
  • 17. Visual supplementation and metonymy in the Roman public library / David Petrain
  • 18. Libraries and reading culture in the High Empire / William A. Johnson
  • 19. Myth and history: Galen and the Alexandrian library / Michael W. Handis
  • 20. Libraries and paideia in the Second Sophistic: Galen and Plutarch / Alexei V. Zadorojnyi
  • 21. The professional and his books: special libraries in the Roman world / Victor Martínez and Megan Finn Senseney.

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