Ancient Libraries

By: Jason KÃ¶nig (Editor), Katerina Oikonomopoulou (Editor), Greg Woolf (Editor)

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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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'[An] important contribution to ancient cultural history.' The Times Literary Supplement
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Introduction: approaching the ancient library
Contexts
Libraries in ancient Egypt
Reading the libraries of Assyria and Babylonia
Fragments of a history of ancient libraries
Hellenistic and Roman Republican Libraries
Men and books in fourth-century BC Athens
From text to text: the impact of the Alexandrian Library on the work of Hellenistic poets
Where was the Royal Library of Pergamon? An institution found and lost again
Priests, patrons and playwrights: libraries in Rome before 168 BC
Libraries in a Greek working life: Dionysius of Halicarnassus, a case study in Rome
Libraries and intellectual debate in the Late Republic: the case of the Aristotelian corpus
Ashes to ashes? The Library of Alexandria after 48 BC
The non-Philodemus book collection in the Villa of the Papyri
'Beware of promising your library to anyone': assembling a private library at Rome
Libraries of the Roman Empire
Libraries for the Caesars
Public libraries in the cities of the Roman Empire
Flavian libraries in Rome
Archives, books and sacred space in Rome
Visual supplementation and metonymy in the Roman public library
Libraries and reading culture in the High Empire
Galen, Ptolemy III and the Athenians: libraries, perception and history
Libraries and paideia in the Second Sophistic: Galen and Plutarch
The professional and his books: special libraries in the Roman world
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