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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      May 2013
      April 2013
      ISBN:
      9780511998386
      9781107012561
      9781316628843
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511998386
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.99kg, 500 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (244 x 170 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.85kg, 500 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Classical Studies, Printing and Publishing History, Classical Studies (General)
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    Literature, Classical Studies, Printing and Publishing History, Classical Studies (General)
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    The circulation of books was the motor of classical civilization. However, books were both expensive and rare, and so libraries - private and public, royal and civic - played key roles in articulating intellectual life. This collection, written by an international team of scholars, presents a fundamental reassessment of how ancient libraries came into being, how they were organized and how they were used. Drawing on papyrology and archaeology, and on accounts written by those who read and wrote in them, it presents new research on reading cultures, on book collecting and on the origins of monumental library buildings. Many of the traditional stories told about ancient libraries are challenged. Few were really enormous, none were designed as research centres, and occasional conflagrations do not explain the loss of most ancient texts. But the central place of libraries in Greco-Roman culture emerges more clearly than ever.

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    '[An] important contribution to ancient cultural history.'

    Source: The Times Literary Supplement

    'The readability, immense variety and breadth of learning of the contributions to Ancient Libraries set a new benchmark, at a time when this subject is undergoing a welcome renaissance.'

    J. Wasserstein Source: Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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