Table of Contents

Introduction
Origins: The Diachronic Perspective
1: The Birth of A Library
2: Library Catalogues: From Literary Description to Literary Self-Description
Forms of the Library
3: The Breathing Library: Performing Cultural Memories
4: The Library (as) Book: The Fantasy of the Total Text
5: The Library of Universal History: Diodorus Siculus and Literary Cosmopolitanism
Memories
6: Inside and Outside of the Library: The Memory of Canon
Physicalities
7: Picture Libraries: Statues among the Books
8: The Sociality of the Ancient Library

About the Author

Yun Lee Too has held research fellowships at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and the Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington and has taught at the University of Liverpool and Columbia University. She currently lives in New York City.

Reviews

This fascination book extends the ancient library well beyond Alexandria's hoary shadow.
*Times Higher Education Supplement*