Yun Lee Too has held research fellowships at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and the Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington and has taught at the University of Liverpool and Columbia University. She currently lives in New York City.

This fascination book extends the ancient library well beyond Alexandria's hoary shadow.

• Introduction ; ORIGINS: THE DIACHRONIC PERSPECTIVE ; 1. The Birth of A Library ; 2. Library Catalogues: From Literary Description to Literary Self-Description ; FORMS OF THE LIBRARY ; 3. The Breathing Library: Performing Cultural Memories ; 4. The Library (as) Book: The Fantasy of the Total Text ; 5. The Library of Universal History: Diodorus Siculus and Literary Cosmopolitanism ; MEMORIES ; 6. Inside and Outside of the Library: The Memory of Canon ; PHYSICALITIES ; 7. Picture Libraries: Statues among the Books ; 8. The Sociality of the Ancient Library

Yun Lee Too has held research fellowships at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and the Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington and has taught at the University of Liverpool and Columbia University. She currently lives in New York City.

This fascination book extends the ancient library well beyond Alexandria's hoary shadow.

• Introduction ; ORIGINS: THE DIACHRONIC PERSPECTIVE ; 1. The Birth of A Library ; 2. Library Catalogues: From Literary Description to Literary Self-Description ; FORMS OF THE LIBRARY ; 3. The Breathing Library: Performing Cultural Memories ; 4. The Library (as) Book: The Fantasy of the Total Text ; 5. The Library of Universal History: Diodorus Siculus and Literary Cosmopolitanism ; MEMORIES ; 6. Inside and Outside of the Library: The Memory of Canon ; PHYSICALITIES ; 7. Picture Libraries: Statues among the Books ; 8. The Sociality of the Ancient Library

Yun Lee Too has held research fellowships at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and the Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington and has taught at the University of Liverpool and Columbia University. She currently lives in New York City.

This fascination book extends the ancient library well beyond Alexandria's hoary shadow.

• Introduction ; ORIGINS: THE DIACHRONIC PERSPECTIVE ; 1. The Birth of A Library ; 2. Library Catalogues: From Literary Description to Literary Self-Description ; FORMS OF THE LIBRARY ; 3. The Breathing Library: Performing Cultural Memories ; 4. The Library (as) Book: The Fantasy of the Total Text ; 5. The Library of Universal History: Diodorus Siculus and Literary Cosmopolitanism ; MEMORIES ; 6. Inside and Outside of the Library: The Memory of Canon ; PHYSICALITIES ; 7. Picture Libraries: Statues among the Books ; 8. The Sociality of the Ancient Library