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Archives et bibliotheques dans le monde grec

This work examines the public archives and libraries of the Greek world from the late Archaic period to the beginning of Trajan’s rule. It focuses on the buildings that housed the archives and libraries, their organisation, and their place in the Greek cities and the Hellenistic kingdoms. It covers a gap in our knowledge of institutions that were important despite a relative lack of visibility in the literary and archaeological record, in an ancient civilization known for having given birth to one of the most celebrated institutions of knowledge and book preservation in the world: the Great Library of Alexandria.