Inside Roman Libraries: Book Collections and Their Management in Antiquity

• Autores: Brent Nongbri (res.)
• Localización: Journal of early Christian studies: Journal of the North American Patristic Society, ISSN 1067-6341, Nº. 1, 2016, págs. 136-137
• Idioma: inglés

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  • Inside Roman Libraries: Book Collections and Their Management in Antiquity

    George W Houston

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  • George W. Houston Inside Roman Libraries: Book Collections and Their Management in Antiquity Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, 2014 Pp. xvi + 327. $59.95. [...]book" in this context refers to the papyrus roll. The final two chapters answer the question of what we might find in a Roman library aside from the books themselves (types of spaces, storage systems, equipment and artistic decoration), as well as personnel that we might encounter in a library and what sorts of activities they might have carried out.