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Great libraries of the ancient world - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The great libraries of the ancient world served as archives for empires, sanctuaries for sacred writings, and depositories of literature and chronicles. • The libraries of Ugarit (in modern Syria), ...
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Library of Alexandria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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C. E. Boyd, Public Libraries and Literary Culture in Ancient Rome. Chicago, 1915. A fundamental collection of Roman data, including some useful analysis. On reserve. ... Lionel Casson, Libraries in the Ancient World. Yale, 2001. Recent and reliable if unthorough and rather superficial. On reserve.
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1. The question of what questions to ask. Introduction to ancient books, book production, distribution, use. Near Eastern antecedents. ... 2. Conspectus of libraries in the East. The nature of the (literary, inscriptional, archaeological) evidence. Focus on Athens, ... 2. Ancient Libraries, an evolving bibliography...
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Please change this URL in your bookmarks. ... Home > Society > Education > Information Sources > Libraries > ... Home Health Science Society Culture...
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Lionel Casson's Libraries in the Ancient World is an easy-to-read overall history of ancient libraries, their organization, the development of books, and book copying that makes modern public libraries sound surprisingly similar to the ancient ones...
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This great ancient city, occupying a spit of land on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea, had been founded by Alexander the Great in his flying visit to Egypt and became the capital of the last dynasty of Pharaohs descended from Alexander ... A much more detailed and heavily footnoted paper about the libraries of Alexandria,
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"And concerning the number of books, the establishment of libraries, and the collection in the Hall of the the Muses, why need I even speak, since they are all in men's memories?" ... The destruction of the library of the ancient world has been retold many times and attributed to just as many different factions and rulers,
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Ancient Libraries of Greece and Rome; A Summary of Research Findings 1999 ... While my initial investigations into the subject of ancient libraries brought me to many dead ends and made me wonder if there were any sources to be had, my current investigations have lead me to believe that one could easily devote a life time...
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In the land that is now Turkey, a wide marble road slopes down to one of the largest libraries of the ancient world. Between 12,000 and 15,000 scrolls were housed in the grand Library of Celsus in the Roman city, Ephesus. ... Lionel Casson - Libraries in the Ancient World - Review of Lionel Casson ...
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