Inside Roman Libraries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Inside Roman Libraries write by George W. Houston. This book was released on 2014. Inside Roman Libraries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Inside Roman Libraries: Book Collections and Their Management in Antiquity
Ancient Libraries
Ancient Libraries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ancient Libraries write by Jason König. This book was released on 2013-04-25. Ancient Libraries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind
Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind write by Edith Hall. This book was released on 2014-06-16. Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Wonderful…a thoughtful discussion of what made [the Greeks] so important, in their own time and in ours." —Natalie Haynes, Independent The ancient Greeks invented democracy, theater, rational science, and philosophy. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. Yet this accomplished people never formed a single unified social or political identity. In Introducing the Ancient Greeks, acclaimed classics scholar Edith Hall offers a bold synthesis of the full 2,000 years of Hellenic history to show how the ancient Greeks were the right people, at the right time, to take up the baton of human progress. Hall portrays a uniquely rebellious, inquisitive, individualistic people whose ideas and creations continue to enthrall thinkers centuries after the Greek world was conquered by Rome. These are the Greeks as you’ve never seen them before.
Libraries in the Ancient World
Libraries in the Ancient World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Libraries in the Ancient World write by Lionel Casson. This book was released on 2001-01-01. Libraries in the Ancient World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The unexpected murder in the little Cotswolds town of Colombury has everyone guessing. Before the answers are found more lives are threatened.
The Roman Book
The Roman Book - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Roman Book write by Rex Winsbury. This book was released on 2009-03-26. The Roman Book available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What was a Roman book? How did it differ from modern books? How were Roman books composed, published and distributed during the high period of Roman literature that encompassed, among others, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Martial, Pliny and Tacitus? What was the ‘scribal art’ of the time? What was the role of bookshops and libraries? The publishing of Roman books has often been misrepresented by false analogies with contemporary publishing. This wide-ranging study re-examines, by appeal to what Roman authors themselves tell us, both the raw material and the aesthetic criteria of the Roman book, and shows how slavery was the ‘enabling infrastructure’ of literature. Roman publishing is placed firmly in the context of a society where the spoken still ranked above the written, helping to explain how some books and authors became politically dangerous and how the Roman book could be both an elite cultural icon and a contributor to Rome’s popular culture through the mass medium of the theatre.
