The idea of the library in the ancient world
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Too, Yun Lee
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2010.
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265 p. ; 23 cm. |
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Table of contents only Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction : the idea of the library
- Origins : the diachronic perspective. The birth of a library ; Library catalogues : from literary description to literary self-description
- Forms of the library. The breathing library : performing cultural memories ; The library (as) book : the fantasy of the total text ; The library of universal history : Diodorus Siculus and literary cosmopolitanism
- Memories. Inside and outside the library : the memory of canon
- Physicalities. Picture libraries : statues among the books ; The sociality of the ancient library.
