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Ancient Libraries (Hardcover, New)
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Ancient Libraries (Hardcover, New)
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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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