Ancient Libraries (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

The circulation of books was the motor of classical civilization. However, 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 fundamental reassessment of how ancient libraries came into being, how they were organized and how they were used. Drawing on papyrology and archaeology, and on accounts written by those who read and wrote in them, it presents new research on reading cultures, on book collecting and on the origins of monumental library buildings. Many of the traditional stories told about ancient libraries are challenged. Few were really enormous, none were designed as research centres, and occasional conflagrations do not explain the loss of most ancient texts. But the central place of libraries in Greco-Roman culture emerges more clearly than ever.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781107240087
• Artikelnr.: 38396760

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: approaching the ancient library Greg Woolf; Part I. Contexts:
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; Part II. Hellenistic and Roman Republican
Libraries: 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; Part III. Libraries of the Roman
Empire: 13. Libraries for the Caesars Ewen Bowie; 14. Public libraries in
the cities of the Roman Empire Matthew Nicholls; 15. Flavian libraries in
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. Galen, Ptolemy III and the Athenians: libraries,
perception and history 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
Martinez and Megan Finn Senseney.