by Lionel Casson · Bellaterra · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788472902114
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«Las bibliotecas del mundo antiguo» is the historical essay by Lionel Casson, published by Bellaterra in paperback (175 pages, in Spanish).
Casson traces the history of libraries from the clay tablets of the ancient Near East to the first Christian libraries, including the public and private collections of Greece and Rome. He analyses their organisation, the acquisition and publication of holdings, their users, and the change brought by Christianity.
Originally published in 2003 in the Bellaterra Arqueología collection.
For readers interested in the history of the book, libraries, and the Greco-Roman world.
