TY - SER
AU - Jason König
AU - Katerina Oikonomopoulou
AU - Greg Woolf
CY - Cambridge, England
LA - English
N1 - <p>Contents:</p><ul><li>Libraries in ancient Egypt / Kim Ryholt </li><li>Reading the libraries of Assyria and Babylonia /Eleanor Robson </li><li>Fragments of a history of ancient libraries / Christian Jacob </li><li>Men and books in fourth-century BC Athens / Massimo Pinto </li><li>From text to text: the impact of the Alexandrian Library on the work of Hellenistic poets / Annette Harder </li><li>Where was the Royal Library of Pergamon? An institution found and lost again / Gaelle Coqueugniot </li><li>Priests, patrons and playwrights: libraries in Rome before 168 BC / Mike Affleck </li><li>Libraries in a Greek working life: Dionysius of Halicarnassus, a case study in Rome / Daniel Hogg </li><li>Libraries and intellectual debate in the Late Republic: the case of the Aristotelian corpus / Fabio Tutrone </li><li>Ashes to ashes? The Library of Alexandria after 48 BC / Myrto Hatzimichali </li><li>The non-Philodemus book collection in the Villa of the Papyri / George W. Houston </li><li>'Beware of promising your library to anyone': assembling a private library at Rome / T. Keith Dix </li><li>Libraries for the Caesars / Ewen Bowie </li><li>Roman libraries in the city of Rome / Matthew Nicholls </li><li>Flavian libraries in the city of Rome/ Pier Luigi Tucci </li><li>Archives, books and sacred space in Rome / Richard Neudecker </li><li>Visual supplementation and metonymy in the Roman public library / David Petrain </li><li>Libraries and reading culture in the High Empire / William A. Johnson </li><li>Myth and history: Galen and the Alexandrian library / Michael W. Handis </li><li>Libraries and paideia in the Second Sophistic: Galen and Plutarch / Alexei V. Zadorojnyi </li><li>The professional and his books: special libraries in the Roman world / Victor Martínez and Megan Finn Senseney.</li></ul>
PB - Cambridge University Press
PP - Cambridge, England
PY - 2013
SN - 9781107012561
EP - 497 pp.
TI - Ancient Libraries
ER -