Download e-book for iPad: Ancient Libraries by Jason König,Katerina Oikonomopoulou,Greg Woolf

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By Jason König,Katerina Oikonomopoulou,Greg Woolf

ISBN-10: 1107012562

ISBN-13: 9781107012561

ISBN-10: 1316628841

ISBN-13: 9781316628843

The move of books was once the motor of classical civilization. yet books have been either pricey and infrequent, and so libraries – deepest and public, royal and civic – performed key roles in articulating highbrow lifestyles. This assortment, written through a world staff of students, offers a primary reassessment of the way historical libraries got here into being, how they have been equipped and the way they have been used. Drawing on papyrology and archaeology, and on debts written by way of those that learn and wrote in them, it provides new examine on studying cultures, on publication gathering and at the origins of enormous library constructions. a number of the conventional tales advised approximately old libraries are challenged. Few have been quite huge, immense, none have been designed as examine centres, and coffee conflagrations don't clarify the lack of such a lot historical texts. however the principal position of libraries in Greco-Roman tradition emerges extra sincerely than ever.

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