Oddziaływanie bibliotek hellenistycznych na kulturę Republiki Rzymskiej

Abstract

The Hellenistic period of culture in the antique world is associated with the history of the last three centuries of the Roman Republic, considered from both the chronological and substantive aspects. Hellenism shaped the cultural essence of the Republic. At this same time Republican Rome managed to subjugate all the Hellenistic countries. Within the sphere of Greek Hellenistic culture there existed numerous libraries, the most outstanding being in Alexandria and Pergamon. These libraries had their influence on cultural development in Rome, where by degrees private book collections were created, and later also public libraries were founded, frequently basing on volumes plundered from Hellenistic collections. In this way the Hellenistic book collections exerted their influence on the development of libraries in Rome and also had their impact on cultural and intellectual life during the time of the Republic.