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The Idea of the Library in the Ancient World

by Yun Lee Too

Yun Lee Too argues that the ancient library was much more than its incarnation at Alexandria, which has been the focus for students of the subject up till now. She shows the library as an ancient concept to be a complex institution with many different forms and functions. It can be a building with books, but it can also be individual people, or the individual books themselves. In antiquity, the library's functions were numerous: as an instrument of power, of memory, of which it has various modes; as an articulation of a political ideal, an art gallery, or as a place for sociality. 265p (Oxford UP 2010)

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