By George W. Houston
ISBN-10: 1469617811
ISBN-13: 9781469617817
Libraries of the traditional international have lengthy held a spot within the public mind's eye. Even in antiquity, the library at Alexandria used to be approximately mythical. beforehand there was fairly little study to find what used to be within those libraries, how the collections got here into being and advanced, and who chosen and maintained the holdings. during this enticing and meticulously researched examine, George Houston examines a dozen particular e-book collections of Roman date within the first accomplished try and solution those questions.
Through a cautious research of the contents of the collections, Houston finds the personalities and pursuits in their vendors, exhibits how manuscripts have been obtained, prepared, and controlled, and identifies a number of the reasons that libraries served. he is taking up the existence expectancy of manuscripts, the sizes of libraries, and risks to books, in addition to the actual items inside libraries from scribal apparatus to artistic endeavors. the result's a clearer, extra particular, and extra targeted photograph of old booklet collections and the weather of Roman libraries than has formerly been attainable.
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Luc. 1–2. See on all of this the excellent discussion in Dix (2000), 444–46 and 457–58. 34. Faustus’s library: Cic. Att. 1. Requesting permission to use Atticus’s: Cic. Att. 1. As Dix (2000), 458, pointed out, it was evidently more difficult to gain access to Atticus’s library than to Lucullus’s. 35. 54 C609 and Plut. Sull. 1: when what remained of Aristotle’s library was installed in Sulla’s house, the booksellers in Rome allegedly smuggled in copyists to transcribe the texts and so were able to put them out for sale.
12, of early June. On all of this, see Dix (2013), 217. 85. 54 C608), Theophrastus to Neleus (Diog. Laert. 52), and Epicurus to Hermarchus (Diog. Laert. 21). 86. Dig. 52. The jurists are Ulpian, Gaius Cassius, Sabinus, Nerva, Pomponius, and Labeo. 87. Gell. 17. 88. App. B Civ. 47. 89. ” 93 Confiscation of property after trials for maiestas was notoriously common in the first century. 94 What has not been noted previously Caesar, and so knew of its contents (Cic. Phil. 104–5). Moreover, at least one statue in the Portico of Octavia—a Cupid by Praxiteles, once owned by Verres—had been inherited by Octavia from Antony, and the library of Varro may have followed the same route through Antony to Octavia and thence to the library in the Portico of Octavia.
Fin. 7, the dramatic date of which is the late 50s; at that time, Lucullus had died and the library belonged to his son, the younger Lucullus. Greek scholars in the library of Lucullus during his lifetime: Plut. Luc. 1–2. See on all of this the excellent discussion in Dix (2000), 444–46 and 457–58. 34. Faustus’s library: Cic. Att. 1. Requesting permission to use Atticus’s: Cic. Att. 1. As Dix (2000), 458, pointed out, it was evidently more difficult to gain access to Atticus’s library than to Lucullus’s.
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