ISBN: 9781107012561 - ancient libraries (5 Ergebnisse)

Binding sound, text unmarked. Zustand: Near Fine. Binding curves slightly. Robust packaging. Tracking is always added to USA orders. It can be added to other overseas orders on request. Used books are exempt from USA tariffs. 4th printing. No ownership marks. Binding sound, text unmarked. Size: xx, 479pp., many illustrations, 25 x 18 cm. No ownership marks. …

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. The libraries of the ancient world were completely unlike those we know today. This book explores and explains those differences. Editor(s): Konig, Jason; Oikonomopoulou, Katerina; Woolf, Greg. Num Pages: 500 pages, 27 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1QDA; 3D; GL; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 177 x 36. Weight in Grams: 976. . 2013. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 504 pages. 9.76x7.01x1.42 inches. In Stock.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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.…