Las primeras bibliotecas públicas en Roma y su impacto en la concepción de la literatura latina
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Universidad de Salamanca
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ISSN: 0325-3465
Year of publication: 2014
Issue: 41
Pages: 205-223
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista de Estudios Clásicos
Abstract
Public libraries in Rome appeared at the beginning of the Empire, and even though at first they kept the spirit of private libraries from the Republican era, research on issues such as their origin, use, arrangement of their holdings, design, etc. reveals that their emergence entailed a new concept of what a library was, as well as changes in the cultural and literary systems at large. Public libraries increased their influence in setting literary canons –not least due to the role emperors played in their establishment-, and therefore became major literary institutions which contributed not only to put Latin literature on an equal footing with its Greek counterpart, but also to force the latter to adapt to new trends.