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Order Nr. 76540 THE HISTORY OF THE LIBRARY IN WESTERN CIVILIZATION: THE ROMAN WORLD - FROM CICERO...

THE HISTORY OF THE LIBRARY IN WESTERN CIVILIZATION: THE ROMAN WORLD - FROM CICERO TO HADRIAN.

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CONTENTS
 

Preface IX-XVII
Table of Contents XIX -XXIII
 

  
 

I THE MINOAN AND MYCENAEAN CIVILIZATIONS 
Scripts and archives in the Bronze Age..................................3-59

Historical background...........................................................5-7
Scripts in use in the Bronze Age................................................7-8
Minoan scripts..................................................................8-10
The pictographic (hieroglyphic) script..........................................10-11
Linear A........................................................................12-16 Linear B........................................................................16-20
Deciphering Linear B............................................................20-27
The Phaistos Disc...............................................................27-34 Conclusions.....................................................................34-35
The Cypro-Minoan script and the Cypriot syllabary...............................35-36
Scribes and their tablets.......................................................36-38
The stylus......................................................................39
Preparing the writing tablet....................................................39-40
The writing surface.............................................................40
Did books exist in the Minoan-Mycenaean era?....................................40-42
Filing systems..................................................................42-44
Sealings........................................................................44-46
Notes...........................................................................51-59 


II. FROM HOMER TO THE END OF THE CLASSICAL PERIOD
  Public, Academic and Private Libraries
in the Greek World......................................................63-153

The Homeric question............................................................63-67
The 'legend' of the first edition of Homer......................................67-69
An edition of Homer under Pisistratus(?)........................................69-74
The first public libraries......................................................74-77
Did the rhapsodists have their own private libraries or guild libraries?........77-79
The first written collections of philosophical works............................79-80
From the oral to the written tradition..........................................80-83
The role of the book is accepted................................................83-85
How the sophists helped to popularize books.....................................85-89
Aristophanes and his mockery of intellectuals...................................89-92
Bookshops.......................................................................92-93
The first private library(?)....................................................93
Plato's travels in search of books..............................................93-97
Rhetoric and books..............................................................97-101
Intellectual property...........................................................104-105
The book trade in the Hellenic world............................................101-104
Intellectual property...........................................................104-105
The philosophy schools as centres of book learning in Athens....................105-110
Plato...................................................................105-106
Aristotle...............................................................108
Epicurus................................................................108-109
Zeno....................................................................109-110
Aristotle's working methods.....................................................112
Historical references to Aristotle's library....................................112
The formation of Aristotle's library............................................112-115
The Lyceum library..............................................................115-119
Theophrastus and the Lyceum after Aristotle.....................................119-120
Neleus..........................................................................120-121
The eventful subsequent history of Aristotle's library..........................121-123
Apellicon.......................................................................123-125
Tyrannio........................................................................125-126
Andronicus of Rhodes............................................................126 
The publishing project..........................................................126-128 
Postscript......................................................................128-129
Notes...........................................................................133-153
 

III. HELLENISTIC PERIOD
The Universal Library of the Ptolemies in Alexandria....................157-245

The historical background.......................................................157-164
Ptolemy I Soter, founder of the Library.........................................164
The sources.....................................................................165
The Museum......................................................................165-166
The Members of the Museum.......................................................167-168
Towards a Universal Library.....................................................168
Demetrius of Phalerum...........................................................168-169
The “Letter of Aristeas”........................................................169-173
The Prolegomena to Aristophanes.................................................173
The Piautine Scholium...........................................................174
The library of the Serapeum.....................................................174-177
The Directors of the Library....................................................177-183
Zenodotus...............................................................178-179
Apollonius Rhodius......................................................179
Eratosthenes............................................................180
Aristophanes of Byzantium...............................................180-182
Apollonius Eidographus..................................................182-183
Aristarchus.............................................................183
The first crisis in the world of literary studies...............................183-184
Callimachus.....................................................................184-185
Creating a library classification system........................................185-186
The Pinakes.....................................................................186
The editing and copying centre..................................................186-188
The growth of the Library.......................................................188
The classification system in use in the Library.................................188-194
How much ancient Greek literature has survived?.................................194-196
The Ptolemies scour the world for books.........................................196-198
From the first crisis in literary studies to the time of Cleopatra..............198-200 
Was Caesar responsible for the burning of the Library?..........................200-204
Egypt as a Roman province.......................................................204-206
The linguistic tradition........................................................206
Incidental information about scholars of the Museum.............................207
The strife caused by Christianity...............................................208
From Zenobia to Diocletian......................................................208-210
The Byzantine period............................................................210-212
From the roll to the codex......................................................221-213
The destruction of the Library: the Arab version................................214
Caliph Omar and the burning of the books........................................214-220
Epilogue........................................................................220-221
Notes...........................................................................225-245

IV. HELLENISTIC PERIOD
Other Libraries from Pergamum to Ai Khanoum.............................249-267
The kingdom of Pergamum.........................................................249-250
The foundation of the Library...................................................250-252
The Library at its zenith.......................................................252-254
Organization and textual studies................................................254-255
The problem of pseudepigraphy...................................................256
Expansion of the Library........................................................256
Ai Khanoum......................................................................256-257
Other libraries in the Hellenistic period ......................................257-258
Gymnasium libraries.............................................................259 The Gymnasium of Ptolemy........................................................259-260
Gymnasium in Piraeus(?).........................................................260
Gymnasia on Rhodes and Cos......................................................260
Notes...........................................................................265-267

V. ARCHITECTURE
Typology and equipment of archival and
academic libraries......................................................271-300

Archival libraries in the Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations....................271
Developing a filing system......................................................272
From Homer to Aristotle.........................................................273
Private Libraries...............................................................274-277
Public Libraries................................................................277-278
Academic Libraries..............................................................278-279
The Lyceum......................................................................279-282
Hellenistic period..............................................................282-283
The Pergamum Library............................................................283-288
Gymnasia........................................................................288-290
Rhodes..........................................................................290-291
Nysa............................................................................291-293
Notes...........................................................................297-300
 
ABBREVIATIONS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY..................................................303-327
INDEX...........................................................................331-349