Ancient libraries/

Other Authors: Οικονομόπουλου, Αικατερίνη,, Woolf, Greg
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, c2013
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040 |a CY  |b Βιβλιοθήκη Ανοικτού Πανεπιστημίου Κύπρου  |e AACR2 
050 |a Z722.A53 2013 
245 1 0 |a Ancient libraries/  |c edited by Jason Konig, Katerina Oikonomopoulou, Greg Woolf 
260 |a Cambridge ;  |b Cambridge University Press,  |c c2013  |a New York: 
300 |a xx, 479 p. :  |b ill., maps ;  |c 26 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 418-462) and index. 
505 0 |a Machine generated contents note: Introduction: approaching the ancient library -- Greg Woolf; Part I. Contexts: 1. Libraries in ancient Egypt -- Kim Ryholt; 2. Reading the libraries of Assyria and Babylonia -- Eleanor Robson; 3. Fragments of a history of ancient libraries -- Christian Jacob; Part II. Hellenistic and Roman Republican Libraries: 4. Men and books in fourth-century BC Athens -- Pasquale Massimo Pinto; 5. From text to text: the impact of the Alexandrian Library on the work of Hellenistic poets -- Annette Harder; 6. Where was the Royal Library of Pergamum? An institution found and lost again -- Gaelle Coqueugniot; 7. Priests, patrons and playwrights: libraries in Rome before 168 BC -- Michael Affleck; 8. Libraries in a Greek working life: Dionysius of Halicarnassus, a case study in Rome -- Daniel Hogg; 9. Libraries and intellectual debate in the Late Republic: the case of the Aristotelian corpus -- Fabio Tutrone; 10. Ashes to ashes? The Library of Alexandria after 48 BC -- Myrto Hatzimichali; 11. The non-Philodemus book collection in the Villa of the Papyri -- George W. Houston; 12. 'Beware of promising your library to anyone': assembling a private library at Rome -- T. Keith Dix; Part III. Libraries of the Roman Empire: 13. Libraries for the Caesars -- Ewen Bowie; 14. Public libraries as public buildings in the cities of the Roman Empire -- Matthew Nicholls; 15. Flavian libraries in the city of Rome -- Pier Luigi Tucci; 16. Archives, books and sacred space in Rome -- Richard Neudecker; 17. Visual supplementation and metonymy in the Roman public library -- David Petrain; 18. Libraries and reading culture in the High Empire -- William A. Johnson; 19. Myth and history: Galen and the Alexandrian library -- Michael W. Handis; 20. Libraries and paideia in the Second Sophistic: Plutarch and Galen -- Alexei V. Zadorojnyi; 21. The professional and his books: special libraries in the ancient world -- Victor Martinez and Megan Finn Senseney. 
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