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Lionel Casson

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"Lionel Casson is Professor Emeritus of Classics, New York University, and the author of Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World as well as many other books on ancient maritime history and ancient travel." -jacket blurb from Libraries in the Ancient World, 2001 (see also Wikipedia)

New York City, United States
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It was in Egypt and Mesopotamia, lands abundantly watered by great rivers, that civilization arose.

— from Libraries in the ancient world, 2001

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Libraries in the ancient world

2001

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"This book tells the story of ancient libraries from their very beginnings, when "books" were clay tablets and writing was a new phenomenon. Renowned classicist Lionel Casson takes us on a lively tour, from the royal libraries of the most ancient Near East, through the private and public libraries of Greece and Rome, down to the first Christian monastic libraries. To the founders of the first public libraries of the Greek world goes the credit for creating the prototype of today's library buildings and the science of organizing books in them."--BOOK JACKET.

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Travel in the ancient world

1974

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Everyday life in ancient Rome

1998

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In Everyday Life in Ancient Rome, Lionel Casson offers a lively introduction to the society of the age. Instead of following the standard procedure of social history, he presents a series of vignettes focusing on the "ways of life" of various members of that society, from the slave to the emperor.

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