Ancient Libraries

Contents
List of figures
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
Introduction
	Histories of ancient libraries
	Alien libraries
	Libraries and literatures
	Libraries and the history of the book
	Libraries and knowledge
Part I Contexts
	1 Libraries in ancient Egypt
		The library of Alexandria
		Libraries in ancient Egypt
		The Tebtunis temple library
		The cultic literature15
		The scientific literature
		The narrative literature
		Conclusions
	2 Reading the libraries of Assyria and Babylonia
		Cuneiform literacies
		Assurbanipal\'s library at Nineveh
		Ezida, another Assyrian royal library
		Huzirina, a school collection in provincial Assyria
		Res, a city temple in Hellenistic Uruk
		Conclusions: the four libraries compared
	3 Fragments of a history of ancient libraries
		Introduction
		Conclusion
Part II Hellenistic and Roman Republican libraries
	4 Men and books in fourth-century BC Athens
		The cultural background
		Personal and practical libraries
		Food for thought: books for intellectual purposes
		Collating books
		Towards a new idea of the library
	5 From text to text
		Introduction
		Philology
		The literary tradition
		Myth, history and geography
		Conclusions
	6 Where was the royal library of Pergamum?
		The discovery of the royal Attalid library of Pergamum
		The north-eastern hall: arrangement and function
		The basis of the identification of the library
		Conclusions
	7 Priests, patrons, and playwrights
		Aemilius Paullus and the library of Macedon
		Priests and books in Republican Rome
		Temple libraries in Republican Rome?
		Book collections and the origins of Latin literature
		Conclusions
	8 Libraries in a Greek working life
		Introduction
		Publishing in antiquity
		Antiquitates Romanae, Book I
		Internationalism
	9 Libraries and intellectual debate in the late Republic
		Reading Aristotle at Rome
		De finibus and the library of Lucullus
		The library of Sulla
		Concluding remarks
	10 Ashes to ashes? The library of Alexandria after 48 BC
		Introduction
		Fire and aftermath
		Beyond the fire: post-Hellenistic intellectual trends
		The weight of tradition: Didymus and meta-scholarship
		Conclusions
	11 The non-Philodemus book collection in the Villa of the Papyri
		Analysis and discussion of the non-Philodemus collection
		Descriptive catalogue of manuscripts by authors other than Philodemus that have been found in the Villa of the Papyri
	12 “Beware of promising your library to anyone”
		Purchases
		Gifts and inheritances
		Miscellaneous acquisitions
		Losses
		Patterns of use
		Conclusions
Part III Libraries of the Roman Empire
	13 Libraries for the Caesars
		Introduction
		The libraries
		The librarians
		Conclusions
	14 Roman libraries as public buildings in the cities of the Empire
		Bibliothecas quas maximas posset publicare
		Augustus and the Palatine library
		Location, location, location: some provincial public libraries
		Libraries as cultural centres: spaces for audiences and visitors
	15 Flavian libraries in the city of Rome
		The Domitianic library in the Templum Pacis
		The library of Apollo as a model for the library of Peace
		Storerooms, library halls, and books around the Palatine hill
		Copies and originals
	AddendumGalen On the avoidance of grief 19: Rome or Antium?
	16 Archives, books and sacred space in Rome
		Life in the library
		The Atrium Libertatis
		The Temple of Apollo and the Bibliotheca Tiberiana
		The Templum Pacis
		Libraries and sacred space
	17 Visual supplementation and metonymy in the Roman public library
		Greek and Latin letters in the Palatine library
		Armaria, visual supplements, and metonymy
		A portrait for Germanicus
		Conclusions
	18 Libraries and reading culture in the High Empire
		Introduction
		Fronto, Gellius, and Galen on the libraries of Rome
		Great men and book collections
		Emperors and book collections
	19 Myth and history
		Background and context of Galen\'s story
		The legacy of the Alexandrian library
		Conclusions
	20 Libraries and paideia in the Second Sophistic
		Now you see them, now you don’t
		Plutarch: library as example
		Galen and the frail text
		Conclusions: beware of hardware
	21 The professional and his books
		The myth of the universal library
		Special libraries
		Special libraries in the ancient world
		Conclusions
Bibliography
General index
Index locorum