The circulation of books was the motor of classical civilization. But 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.
Reflections on Neo-Assyrian Archives', in M. Brosius (ed.), Ancient Archives and Archival Traditions: Concepts of Record-Keeping in the Ancient World. Oxford and New York: Oxford ... Babylonian Literary Texts in the Schoyen Collection.
The unexpected murder in the little Cotswolds town of Colombury has everyone guessing. Before the answers are found more lives are threatened.
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Inside Roman Libraries: Book Collections and Their Management in Antiquity
After this many other states sought to acquire texts and to translate them into Greek, with the result that Alexander ... inscribed with the phrase 'from the ships' (Galen Comm. in Hipp. ... 23 Davison (1962: 228–9) and Fraser (1972: i.
Beginning with the clay-tablet libraries of the ancient Sumerian and Assyro-Babylonian empires, to those inspired by the Italian Renaissance, Mr. Staikos reveals the majesty of western literature within these great...
" Dr. Sarna examines the reality behind Talmudic language concerning the ordering of the bibliographical books, drawing on his wide-ranging knowledge of ancient archives and libraries." -- Preface.
W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Beyond Blackface: African Americans and the Creation of American Mass Culture, 1890–1930 (2011). Michael H. Hunt and Steven I. Levine, Arc of Empire: America's Wars in Asia from the Philippines to Vietnam (2012).
The book can only enrich research and teaching."—William M. Calder III, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign
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