Resumen de Inside Roman Libraries: Book Collections and Their Management in Antiquity

Brent Nongbri (res.)

• 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.