LIBRARY NOTES
Lionel Casson
Libraries of the Ancient World
Thursday, October 11, 2001 at 6:30 PM
Members' Room
Books whose pages were unrolled rather than turned, copied by hand, containing no punctuation - these were the contents of the great libraries of Alexandria and the Roman Empire.
Lionel Casson, author of Libraries in the Ancient World, brings to life these ancestors of the modern library and describe how kings, scholars and readers interacted among the shelves.
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