Libraries Before Alexandria: Ancient Near Eastern Traditions

ISBN-13: 9780199655359 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 512 str.

Kim Ryholt; Gojko Barjamovic

Recenzje

The volume is valuable for specialists but also a useful introduction into the topic of ancient libraries for an interested broader public...

O autorze

Kim Ryholt is Professor of Egyptology at the University of Copenhagen, specializing in ancient Egyptian history and literature. He was director of the Centre for Canon and Identity Formation under the University of Copenhagen Program of Excellence from 2008 until 2013 and has been responsible for the Papyrus Carlsberg Collection and its publication since 1999. Gojko Barjamovic is Senior Lecturer on Assyriology at Harvard University. His main areas of research are the economic and social history of Western Asia in the second and first millennia BC, with a particular focus on the study of trade in the Bronze Age period and the development of early markets and trans-regional interaction. He also writes on early state power and civic institutions of governance, historical geography, intellectual history, and absolute chronology.