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Let me start with the term Enlightenment, which plays a crucial role in both Western and Eastern history.
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While mentioning the Greek libraries as foregoing models to Roman libraries the focus of this paper is the function of the libraries. From the immediate surroundings of the elite intellectuals, did the written sources find their way to... more
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Locvm Armarivm Libros propose une approche singulière pour aborder la circulation des livres et le rôle des bibliothèques durant l'Antiquité gréco-romaine, en croisant les données archéologiques, historiques et philologiques. Par son... more
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The Library of Celsus dominates to the south of the Tetragonos (Commercial) Agora of Ephesus. The Library of Alexandria in Egypt, the Library of Pergamon and the Library of Celsus were the largest and most splendid libraries of antiquity.... more
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Updating (March 2014). For a desperate attempt to dismiss my observations on the Templum Pacis, cf. R. Meneghini in 'La Biblioteca Infinita.' I confirm that in the rear wall of the SE portico of the Templum Pacis there are no recesses for... more
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The sanctuary of Apollo on the Palatine is one of the most important Augustan buildings. Situated very close to the first emperor's private residence, it is central for our understanding of Augustan culture. As one of its main functions,... more
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Kaiserliches Bauwerk zwischen Klassizismus und romantischer Erinnerungskultur Der vielleicht eindrucksvollste Baukomplex der Kaiserzeit in Athen, die Hadriansbibliothek, ist in den vergangenen zwanzig Jahren Gegenstand einer lebhaften... more
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An griechischen oder römischen Bibliotheken ist uns eigentlich nur eine einzige erhalten geblieben, wenn man unter einer Bibliothek mehr versteht, als die Ruine ihres Gebäudes, womit sich ein Archäologe ja schon zufrieden gibt. Eine... more
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In 1666 Pope Alexander VII ordered the annexation of the Aniciana Library to the nascent Sapienza University. This library was founded by the Benedictine scholar Costantino Gaetani as a support to the studies of the members of his order,... more
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Il De Bibliothecis Romanorum di Christian Curio, apparso nel 1734, è una delle prime tesi accademiche di storia delle biblioteche. Ne è qui riproposta la prima edizione moderna corredata di saggio introduttivo, traduzione e commento... more
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De l'introduction : Vu l’abondance de travaux scientifiques – et notre revue, très sélective, n’a abordé que les textes de première consultation –, tout ajout à la littérature existante requiert une motivation. Précisons donc que... more
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L’étude des bibliothèques romaines d’Asie Mineure romaine reste largement tributaire de l’exemple posé par Bibliothèque de Celsus à Éphèse. En raison de l’état de conservation exceptionnel de sa structure architecturale, de son programme... more
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Nachdem Ihnen mein Kollege Hueber die denkmalpflegerischen und technischen Probleme einer Wiederherstellung der Fassade der Celsusbibliothek dargelegt hat, möchte ich eine rein archäologische Frage, die bisher urbefriedigend gelöst wurde,... more
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https://www.classics.upenn.edu/events/2014/clst-colloquium/pier-luigi-tucci-hopkins-university The Templum Pacis, a monumental building dedicated by Vespasian in AD 75 near the Forum of Augustus, was remodeled under Domitian and... more
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Work in progress on the Severan Marble Plan of Rome. Reconstruction of the Templum Pacis, with comments on the exhibition 'La Biblioteca Infinita' at the Colosseum (Rome, March-October 2014). PS - Not mentioned in the catalog: 1)... more
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Academic blog for research project NimRoD: from Nimrud to Rome, Discovering ancient libraries
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