The idea of the library in the ancient world
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Word Count
66,250 words, Guess
Page Count
265 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveidealibraryancie00tooy
- Internet Archiveidealibraryancie00tooy_668
- ISBN-100199577803
- ISBN-139780199577804
- Library of Congress Control Number2009934147
and 4 more
- OCLC Control Number428033347
- Better World Books9780199577804
- Better World BooksKT-875-400
- Open LibraryOL25554323M
Classifications
- DDC027.03
- LCCZ722 .T66 2010
- LCCZ721
Description
"In The Idea of the Library in the Ancient World Yun Lee Too argues that the ancient library was much more than its incarnation at Alexandria, which has been the focus for students of the subject until now. In fact, the library is a complex institution with many different forms. It can be a building with books, but it can also be individual people, or the individual books themselves. In antiquity, the library's functions are numerous: as an instrument of power, of memory, of which it has various modes; as an articulation of a political ideal, an art gallery, a place for sociality. Too indirectly raises important conceptual questions about the contemporary library, bringing to these the insights that a study of antiquity can offer."--Jacket.
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