Book contents
- Ancient Libraries
- Ancient Libraries
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of figures
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Contexts
- Part II Hellenistic and Roman Republican libraries
- 4 Menand books in fourth-century BC Athens
- 5 Fromtext to text
- 6 Wherewas the royal library of Pergamum?
- 7 Priests,patrons, and playwrights
- 8 Librariesin a Greekworking life
- 9 Librariesandintellectual debate in the late Republic
- 10 Ashesto ashes? The library of Alexandria after 48 BC
- 11 Thenon-Philodemusbookcollection in the Villa of the Papyri
- 12 “Bewareof promising your library to anyone”
- Part III Libraries of the Roman Empire
- Bibliography
- General index
- Index locorum
12 - “Bewareof promising your library to anyone”
Assembling a private library at Rome
from Part II - Hellenistic and Roman Republican libraries
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2013
- Ancient Libraries
- Ancient Libraries
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of figures
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Contexts
- Part II Hellenistic and Roman Republican libraries
- 4 Menand books in fourth-century BC Athens
- 5 Fromtext to text
- 6 Wherewas the royal library of Pergamum?
- 7 Priests,patrons, and playwrights
- 8 Librariesin a Greekworking life
- 9 Librariesandintellectual debate in the late Republic
- 10 Ashesto ashes? The library of Alexandria after 48 BC
- 11 Thenon-Philodemusbookcollection in the Villa of the Papyri
- 12 “Bewareof promising your library to anyone”
- Part III Libraries of the Roman Empire
- Bibliography
- General index
- Index locorum
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- Ancient Libraries , pp. 209 - 234Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013
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