Books and Readers in Ancient Greece and Rome - Hardcover

Kenyon, Frederic George

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1443728616 ISBN 13: 9781443728614

Verlag: Kenyon Press, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

BOOKS AND READERS IN ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME by FREDERIC G. KENYON. Originally published in 1932. PREFACE: THIS book is the outcome of a course of three lectures which I was invited by the University of London to deliver at King's College in March 1932. The material has been slightly expanded, but the general scale of treatment has not been altered. It does not claim to replace the standard works on ancient book-production, but to supple ment them, and that especially with regard to the period during which papyrus was the principal material in use. It is in respect of this period that our knowledge has increased in the course of the last two generations. The object of this book is to bring together and make available for students the results of these discoveries. In particular, use has been made of the remarkable collection of papyrus codloss . recently acquired by Mr. A. Chester Beatty, which has greatly extended our knowledge of this transitional form of book, which appears to have h

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• Verlag: Kenyon Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1443728616
• ISBN 13: 9781443728614
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160
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