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This work examines the public archives and libraries of the Greek
world from the late Archaic period to the beginning of Trajan s
rule. This study, including a catalogue, focuses on the buildings
that housed the archives and libraries, their organisation, and
their place in the Greek cities and the Hellenistic kingdoms. It
explores the development of these institutions, their topography in
the city and issues of access and the purposes for which they were
used by readers.The work is aimed both at classicists and at
historians of libraries, books and archives, and covers a gap in
our knowledge of institutions that were important despite a
relative lack of visibility in the literature and the
archaeological record, in an ancient civilization that is known for
having given birth to one of the most celebrated institutions of
knowledge and book preservation in the world: the Great Library of
Alexandria."
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