Ancient Libraries Conference
School of Classics, University of St Andrews
9-11 September 2008
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/classics/science-and-empire/anclib.shtml
Programme:
Tuesday, 9 September
Institutional Histories
10:15-11:00 Myrto Hatzimichali (Cambridge): The Library of Alexandria after 48
B.C.
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30- 12:15 Michael Affleck (Queensland): Libraries in Rome Before the 2nd
century B.C.
12:15- 13:00 Ewen Bowie (Oxford): Libraries for the Caesars
13:00-14:30 Lunch break
14:30-15:15 Eleanor Robson (Cambridge): Reading the Libraries of Assyria and
Babylonia
Philosophy and Papyrology
15:15-16:00 George Houston (Chapel Hill): Thinking Through the Collection of
Non-Philodemus Manuscripts from the Villa of the Papyri
16:00- 16:30 Tea break
16:30-17:15 Fabio Tutrone (Palermo): Beyond the Books, Around the Sources.
Aristotelian Libraries and Eclectic Intellectuals in Roman Italy in the Ist
Century B. C.
17:15-18:00 Dirk Obbink (Oxford): tba
DINNER
Wednesday, 10 September
Cultures of Library Use
9:00 – 9:45 David Petrain (Vanderbilt): Visual Supplementation and Metonymy in
the Roman Public Library
9:45- 10:30 Massimo Pinto (Bari): Men and Books in the 4th Century BC
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:45 William Johnson (Cincinnati): Libraries and Reading Culture in the
High Empire
11:45-12:30 Christian Jacob (Paris): Fragments of a History of Ancient Libraries
12:30- 14:00 Lunch break
Libraries and Texts
14:00 – 14:45 Annette Harder (Groningen): Text into Text. The Impact of the
Alexandrian Library on the Work of Hellenistic Poets
14:45 – 15:30 Dan Hogg (St Andrews): What does a Greek Know? The Knowledge of
Dionysius of Halicarnassus
15:30- 16:00 Tea break
16:00 – 16:45 Alexei Zadorojnyi (Liverpool): Libraries and Paideia in the Second
Sophistic: Galen and Plutarch
16:45 – 17:30 Paul Nelles (Ontario): After Isidore: the Literary Legacy of the
Ancient Library
CONFERENCE DINNER
Thursday, 11 September
Space and Context
9:00 – 9:45 Richard Neudecker (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Rom): Archives
and Books in Sacred Spaces of Rome
9:45- 10:30 Philippe Clancier (Cambridge): From Tablets to Libraries: the Main
Library of Babylon in the Later First Millennium B.C.
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:45 Gaelle Coqueugniot (Lyon): Where was the Royal Library of Pergamon ?
An Institution Found and Lost Again
11:45-12:30 Matthew Nicholls (Reading): Roman Public Libraries in Context
12:30- 14:00 Lunch break
Collecting Books
14:00- 14:45 Keith Dix (Georgia): Bibliothecam tuam cave cuiquam despondeas:
Assembling a Private Library at Rome
14:45-15:30 Michael Handis (Mina Rees Library, NY): Galen on the Alexandrian
Library and the Official Copies of the Athenian Tragedians
15:30- 16:00 Tea break
16:00- 16:45 Víctor M. Martínez - Megan Finn (University of Illinois at Urbana
Champaign): The Professional and his Book: Special Libraries in the Roman World
16:45- 17:15 Closing discussion
Conference venue: Seminar Room 6, School of Art History, 9 The Scores, St
Andrews
The event is part of the activities of the Leverhulme ‘Science and Empire in the
Roman World’ project: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/classics/science-and-empire/
For more information and bookings, please visit the conference website:
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/classics/science-and-empire/anclib.shtml
The conference is open to both professional scholars and postgraduates.
Postgraduate funding may be available. Please contact the conference
organisers:
Dr Jason König (jpk3 AT st-andrews.ac.uk)
Dr Katerina Oikonomopoulou (ao40 AT st-andrews.ac.uk)
Professor Greg Woolf (gdw2 AT st-andrews.ac.uk)
School of Classics, University of St Andrews
9-11 September 2008
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/classics/science-and-empire/anclib.shtml
Programme:
Tuesday, 9 September
Institutional Histories
10:15-11:00 Myrto Hatzimichali (Cambridge): The Library of Alexandria after 48
B.C.
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30- 12:15 Michael Affleck (Queensland): Libraries in Rome Before the 2nd
century B.C.
12:15- 13:00 Ewen Bowie (Oxford): Libraries for the Caesars
13:00-14:30 Lunch break
14:30-15:15 Eleanor Robson (Cambridge): Reading the Libraries of Assyria and
Babylonia
Philosophy and Papyrology
15:15-16:00 George Houston (Chapel Hill): Thinking Through the Collection of
Non-Philodemus Manuscripts from the Villa of the Papyri
16:00- 16:30 Tea break
16:30-17:15 Fabio Tutrone (Palermo): Beyond the Books, Around the Sources.
Aristotelian Libraries and Eclectic Intellectuals in Roman Italy in the Ist
Century B. C.
17:15-18:00 Dirk Obbink (Oxford): tba
DINNER
Wednesday, 10 September
Cultures of Library Use
9:00 – 9:45 David Petrain (Vanderbilt): Visual Supplementation and Metonymy in
the Roman Public Library
9:45- 10:30 Massimo Pinto (Bari): Men and Books in the 4th Century BC
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:45 William Johnson (Cincinnati): Libraries and Reading Culture in the
High Empire
11:45-12:30 Christian Jacob (Paris): Fragments of a History of Ancient Libraries
12:30- 14:00 Lunch break
Libraries and Texts
14:00 – 14:45 Annette Harder (Groningen): Text into Text. The Impact of the
Alexandrian Library on the Work of Hellenistic Poets
14:45 – 15:30 Dan Hogg (St Andrews): What does a Greek Know? The Knowledge of
Dionysius of Halicarnassus
15:30- 16:00 Tea break
16:00 – 16:45 Alexei Zadorojnyi (Liverpool): Libraries and Paideia in the Second
Sophistic: Galen and Plutarch
16:45 – 17:30 Paul Nelles (Ontario): After Isidore: the Literary Legacy of the
Ancient Library
CONFERENCE DINNER
Thursday, 11 September
Space and Context
9:00 – 9:45 Richard Neudecker (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Rom): Archives
and Books in Sacred Spaces of Rome
9:45- 10:30 Philippe Clancier (Cambridge): From Tablets to Libraries: the Main
Library of Babylon in the Later First Millennium B.C.
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:45 Gaelle Coqueugniot (Lyon): Where was the Royal Library of Pergamon ?
An Institution Found and Lost Again
11:45-12:30 Matthew Nicholls (Reading): Roman Public Libraries in Context
12:30- 14:00 Lunch break
Collecting Books
14:00- 14:45 Keith Dix (Georgia): Bibliothecam tuam cave cuiquam despondeas:
Assembling a Private Library at Rome
14:45-15:30 Michael Handis (Mina Rees Library, NY): Galen on the Alexandrian
Library and the Official Copies of the Athenian Tragedians
15:30- 16:00 Tea break
16:00- 16:45 Víctor M. Martínez - Megan Finn (University of Illinois at Urbana
Champaign): The Professional and his Book: Special Libraries in the Roman World
16:45- 17:15 Closing discussion
Conference venue: Seminar Room 6, School of Art History, 9 The Scores, St
Andrews
The event is part of the activities of the Leverhulme ‘Science and Empire in the
Roman World’ project: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/classics/science-and-empire/
For more information and bookings, please visit the conference website:
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/classics/science-and-empire/anclib.shtml
The conference is open to both professional scholars and postgraduates.
Postgraduate funding may be available. Please contact the conference
organisers:
Dr Jason König (jpk3 AT st-andrews.ac.uk)
Dr Katerina Oikonomopoulou (ao40 AT st-andrews.ac.uk)
Professor Greg Woolf (gdw2 AT st-andrews.ac.uk)