Galen and Libraries in the Peri Alupias
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9355679 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matthew Nicholls (0000-0003-4830-3433, University of Reading, corresponding author), Matthew C Nicholls |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 101 |
| Pages | 123-142 |
| Publication date | 2011-05-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Roman Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0075-4358 • E-ISSN: 1753-528X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0075435811000049 |
| OpenAlex | W2152265960 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 16 |
This article examines the implications of Galen's newly-rediscovered Peri Alupias (On Consolation from Grief) for our understanding of the function and contents of public libraries in late second-century a.d . Rome. As a leading intellectual figure at Rome, Galen's detailed testimony substantially increases what we know of imperial public libraries in the city. In particular, the article considers Galen's description of his use of the Palatine libraries and a nearby storage warehouse, his testimony on the contents, organization, and cataloguing of the books he found there, and his use of provincial public libraries for the dissemination of his own works
Art · Consolation · Function (biology · Grief · Literature · Byzantine Studies and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Psychology
A history of classical scholarship
On the Early History of the Aristotelian Corpus
Galen and the World of Knowledge
Galen's storeroom, Rome's libraries, and the fire of A.D. 192
Hadrian's lost Temple of Trajan
Books and libraries in a newly-discovered and treatise of Galen
Ancient Literacies
The Worlds of Aulus Gellius
The Used-Book Trade in the Roman World
Library Resources and Creative Writing at Rome
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,46 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2020 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |