Ancient Libraries in Ancient Literature
Keywords:
antique, library, fictionAbstract
The origin of libraries has an ancient history and like so many things, its history begins in ancient Greece and Rome. We find information about libraries not only in official historical and scientific sources, but also in fiction, with such authors as: Aristophanes, Callimachus, Apollonius of Rhodes, Ovid and others. In this article, we will focus on the information provided by them about libraries in fiction.
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