Ancient libraries / edited by Jason König, Katerina Oikonomopoulou, Greg Woolf.

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

xx, 479 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

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 / 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 Pergamon? An institution found and lost again / Gaelle Coqueugniot; 7. Priests, patrons and playwrights: libraries in Rome before 168 BC / Mike 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 in the cities of the Roman Empire / Matthew Nicholls; 15. Flavian libraries in 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. Galen, Ptolemy III and the Athenians: libraries, perception and history / Michael W. Handis; 20. Libraries and paideia in the Second Sophistic: Galen and Plutarch / Alexei V. Zadorojnyi; 21. The professional and his books: special libraries in the Roman world / Victor Martinez and Megan Finn Senseney.

Includes bibliographical references and index.