Format:
Online-Ressource (502 p)
ISBN:
9781107012561
Content:
The libraries of the ancient world were completely unlike those we know today. This book explores and explains those differences
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Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; List of figures; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Histories of ancient libraries; Alien libraries; Libraries and literatures; Libraries and the history of the book; Libraries and knowledge; Part I Contexts; 1 Libraries in ancient Egypt; The library of Alexandria; Libraries in ancient Egypt; The Tebtunis temple library; The cultic literature15; The scientific literature; The narrative literature; Conclusions; 2 Reading the libraries of Assyria and Babylonia; Cuneiform literacies; Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh
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Ezida, another Assyrian royal libraryHuzirina, a school collection in provincial Assyria; Res, a city temple in Hellenistic Uruk; Conclusions: the four libraries compared; 3 Fragments of a history of ancient libraries; Introduction; Conclusion; Part II Hellenistic and Roman Republican libraries; 4 Men and books in fourth-century BC Athens; The cultural background; Personal and practical libraries; Food for thought: books for intellectual purposes; Collating books; Towards a new idea of the library; 5 From text to text; Introduction; Philology; The literary tradition
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Myth, history and geographyConclusions; 6 Where was the royal library of Pergamum?; The discovery of the royal Attalid library of Pergamum; The north-eastern hall: arrangement and function; The basis of the identification of the library; Conclusions; 7 Priests, patrons, and playwrights; Aemilius Paullus and the library of Macedon; Priests and books in Republican Rome; Temple libraries in Republican Rome?; Book collections and the origins of Latin literature; Conclusions; 8 Libraries in a Greek working life; Introduction; Publishing in antiquity; Antiquitates Romanae, Book I; Internationalism
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9 Libraries and intellectual debate in the late RepublicReading Aristotle at Rome; De finibus and the library of Lucullus; The library of Sulla; Concluding remarks; 10 Ashes to ashes? The library of Alexandria after 48 BC; Introduction; Fire and aftermath; Beyond the fire: post-Hellenistic intellectual trends; The weight of tradition: Didymus and meta-scholarship; Conclusions; 11 The non-Philodemus book collection in the Villa of the Papyri; Analysis and discussion of the non-Philodemus collection
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Descriptive catalogue of manuscripts by authors other than Philodemus that have been found in the Villa of the Papyri12 "Beware of promising your library to anyone"; Purchases; Gifts and inheritances; Miscellaneous acquisitions; Losses; Patterns of use; Conclusions; Part III Libraries of the Roman Empire; 13 Libraries for the Caesars; Introduction; The libraries; The librarians; Conclusions; 14 Roman libraries as public buildings in the cities of the Empire; Bibliothecas quas maximas posset publicare; Augustus and the Palatine library
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Location, location, location: some provincial public libraries
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107247505
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107012561
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Ancient Libraries
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
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Ancient Studies
Keywords:
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