Libraries in the ancient world
by Lionel Casson
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"This book tells the story of ancient libraries from their very beginnings, when "books" were clay tablets and writing was a new phenomenon. Renowned classicist Lionel Casson takes us on a lively tour, from the royal libraries of the most ancient Near East, through the private and public libraries of Greece and Rome, down to the first Christian monastic libraries.
To the founders of the first public libraries of the Greek world goes the credit for creating the prototype of today's library buildings and the science of organizing books in them."--BOOK JACKET.
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Libraries, History, Libraries, history, Bibliotheques, Histoire, Bibliotecas, HistoriaTimes
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Libraries in the ancient world
2001, Yale University Press
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in English
0300088094 9780300088090
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"It was in Egypt and Mesopotamia, lands abundantly watered by great rivers, that civilization arose."
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"It was in Egypt and Mesopotamia, lands abundantly watered by great rivers, that civilization arose."
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