Machine generated contents note: Introduction: approaching the ancient library
Greg Woolf; Part I. Contexts: 1. Libraries in ancient Egypt
Kim Ryholt; 2. Reading the libraries of Assyria and Babylonia
Eleanor Robson; 3. Fragments of a history of ancient libraries
Christian Jacob; Part II. Hellenistic and Roman Republican Libraries: 4. Men and books in fourth-century BC Athens
Pasquale Massimo Pinto; 5. From text to text: the impact of the Alexandrian Library on the work of Hellenistic poets
Annette Harder; 6. Where was the Royal Library of Pergamum? An institution found and lost again
Gaelle Coqueugniot; 7. Priests, patrons and playwrights: libraries in Rome before 168 BC
Michael Affleck; 8. Libraries in a Greek working life: Dionysius of Halicarnassus, a case study in Rome
Daniel Hogg; 9. Libraries and intellectual debate in the Late Republic: the case of the Aristotelian corpus
Fabio Tutrone; 10. Ashes to ashes? The Library of Alexandria after 48 BC
Myrto Hatzimichali; 11. The non-Philodemus book collection in the Villa of the Papyri
George W. Houston; 12. 'Beware of promising your library to anyone': assembling a private library at Rome
T. Keith Dix; Part III. Libraries of the Roman Empire: 13. Libraries for the Caesars
Ewen Bowie; 14. Public libraries as public buildings in the cities of the Roman Empire
Matthew Nicholls; 15. Flavian libraries in the city of Rome
Pier Luigi Tucci; 16. Archives, books and sacred space in Rome
Richard Neudecker; 17. Visual supplementation and metonymy in the Roman public library
David Petrain; 18. Libraries and reading culture in the High Empire
William A. Johnson; 19. Myth and history: Galen and the Alexandrian library
Michael W. Handis; 20. Libraries and paideia in the Second Sophistic: Plutarch and Galen
Alexei V. Zadorojnyi; 21. The professional and his books: special libraries in the ancient world
Victor Martinez and Megan Finn Senseney.
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Ancient libraries. ISBN 9781107012561. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2013. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
