The Idea Of The Library In The Ancient World
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The Idea Of The Library In The Ancient World
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Author : Yun Lee Too
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2010-01-07
The Idea Of The Library In The Ancient World written by Yun Lee Too and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-07 with History categories.
In The Idea of the Library in the Ancient World Yun Lee Too argues that the ancient library was much more than its incarnation at Alexandria, which has been the focus for students of the subject up till now. In fact, the library is a complex institution with many different forms. It can be a building with books, but it can also be individual people, or the individual books themselves. In antiquity, the library's functions are numerous: as an instrument of power, of memory, of which it has various modes; as an articulation of a political ideal, an art gallery, a place for sociality. Too indirectly raises important conceptual questions about the contemporary library, bringing to these the insights that a study of antiquity can offer.
Libraries In The Ancient World
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Author : Lionel Casson
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2001-01-01
Libraries In The Ancient World written by Lionel Casson and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01-01 with History categories.
The unexpected murder in the little Cotswolds town of Colombury has everyone guessing. Before the answers are found more lives are threatened.
Ancient Libraries
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Author : Jason König
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-04-25
Ancient Libraries written by Jason König and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-25 with History categories.
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.
The Library Of Alexandria
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Author : Roy MacLeod
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2005-01-14
The Library Of Alexandria written by Roy MacLeod and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-14 with Art categories.
The Library of Alexandria was one of the greatest cultural adornments of the late ancient world, containing thousands of scrolls of Greek, Hebrew and Mesopotamian literature and art and artefacts of ancient Egypt. This book demonstrates that Alexandria became - through the contemporary reputation of its library - a point of confluence for Greek, Roman, Jewish and Syrian culture that drew scholars and statesmen from throughout the ancient world. It also explores the histories of Alexander the Great and of Alexandria itself, the greatest city of the ancient world. This new paperback edition offers general readers an accessible introduction to the history of this magnificent yet still mysterious institution from the time of its foundation up to its tragic destruction.
The Vanished Library
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Author : Luciano Canfora
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1990-08-29
The Vanished Library written by Luciano Canfora and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-08-29 with History categories.
Recreates the world of ancient Egypt, describes how the Library of Alexandria was created, and speculates on its destruction.
Libraries Before Alexandria
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Author : Kim Ryholt
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-11-07
Libraries Before Alexandria written by Kim Ryholt and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-07 with History categories.
The creation of the Library of Alexandria is widely regarded as one of the great achievements in the history of humankind - a giant endeavour to amass all known literature and scholarly texts in one central location, so as to preserve it and make it available for the public. In turn, this event has been viewed as a historical turning point that separates the ancient world from classical antiquity. Standard works on the library continue to present the idea behind the institution as novel and, at least implicitly, as a product of Greek thought. Yet, although the scale of the collection in Alexandria seems to have been unprecedented, the notion of creating central repositories of knowledge, while perhaps new to Greek tradition, was age-old in the Near East where the building was erected. Here the existence of libraries can be traced back another two millennia, from the twenty-seventh century BCE to the third century CE, and so the creation of the Library in Alexandria was not so much the beginning of an intellectual adventure as the impressive culmination of a very long tradition. This volume presents the first comprehensive study of these ancient libraries across the 'Cradle of Civilization' and traces their institutional and scholarly roots back to the early cities and states and the advent of writing itself. Leading specialists in the intellectual history of each individual period and region covered in the volume present and discuss the enormous textual and archaeological material available on the early collections, offering a uniquely readable account intended for a broad audience of the libraries in Egypt and Western Asia as centres of knowledge prior to the famous Library of Alexandria.
The Vanished Library
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Author : Luciano Canfora
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1990-08-29
The Vanished Library written by Luciano Canfora and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-08-29 with History categories.
Recreates the world of ancient Egypt, describes how the Library of Alexandria was created, and speculates on its destruction.
Ancient Libraries
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Author : Jason König
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-04-25
Ancient Libraries written by Jason König and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-25 with History categories.
The libraries of the ancient world were completely unlike those we know today. This book explores and explains those differences.
What Happened To The Ancient Library Of Alexandria
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Author : Mostafa el- Abbadi
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2008
What Happened To The Ancient Library Of Alexandria written by Mostafa el- Abbadi and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
This book aims at presenting a new discussion of primary sources by renowned scholars of the long disputed question of "What Happened to the Ancient Library of Alexandria"? The treatment includes a brilliant presentation of cultural Alexandrian life in late antiquity.
Religions Of The Ancient World
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Author : Sarah Iles Johnston
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2004-11-30
Religions Of The Ancient World written by Sarah Iles Johnston and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-11-30 with History categories.
This groundbreaking, first basic reference work on ancient religious beliefs collects and organizes available information on ten ancient cultures and traditions, including Greece, Rome, and Mesopotamia, and offers an expansive, comparative perspective on each one.