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Recent scholarship has studied Hellenistic libraries at a more granular level, by distinguishing the institutional libraries of the 2nd century from the less formally constituted book collections of the 3rd century, and by casting doubt on much of the unreliable, anachronistic late literary evidence that romanticizes the Library of Alexandria… Read more

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I very much like your formulation of how this "claim to continuity with the Peripatetics is retrojected ideologically to Aristotle himself"! In case you are curious, my fourth chapter argues that imperial authors significantly rescripted the history of libraries in line with what you are saying here, and I would… Read more