INDEX.
Reading edition
A
Abernethy, Dr., the case of, 78
Abicht, cited, 86
Abu Simbel, temple of, 58
Açoka, the edicts of, 44
Agadê, discoveries in, 8
Aldus Manutius, of Venice, reintroduces Greek literature into Europe, 295
Alexander, correspondence of, with Aristotle, 81; recites Euripides, 100; buys books in Athens, 111
Alexandria, as a book-mart, 116; literary activity of, under the Ptolemies, 127; concentration of existing Greek manuscripts in, 131; the writers of, 132; advantageous position of, 139; publishing methods of, 140
Alexandrian Canon, the, 134
Alexandrian Museum and Library, organization of, 128; wholesale purchases for, 131; publishing undertakings of, 141
Alexandrian School, literature of the, 129
Alexandrian school of theology, writers of the, 146
Alexis, writer of comedies, 96
Alphabet, invention of, in China, 23
American literature, relations of, with Great Britain, 172
Anaxagoras, charged with heresies, 97; quoted by Socrates, 98
Andronicus of Rhodes, 117
Andronicus of Tarentum, the first Latin playwright, 176
Antigonus Gonatas sends scribes to Zeno, 113
Antioch, as a literary centre, 139; the library of, dispersed, 140
Antipater, the Histories of, 180
Antiphanes of Rhodes, 103
Antiquarii, definition of, 183
Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius, the Meditations of, 260
Apellikon, a collector of books, 117
Appollonius, work of, on conic sections, 132
Apuleius, the writings of, 261
Arabian Nights, the, 49
Aratus, the astronomer, 132
Archilochus, 59
Aretades, the sophist, 69
Argiletum, the street the booksellers’ quarter, 239
Aristomenes, The Deceivers of, 103
Aristophanes, charged with plagiarism, 71; The Frogs of, 71, 94
Aristophanes, the grammarian, 74
Aristotle, criticised by Cephisodorus, 80; writings of, 80-82; relations with Alexander, 81; the library of, bequeathed to Neleus, buried by heirs of Neleus, sold to Apellikon, taken to Rome by Sylla, used by Tyrannion, 90, 117
Artemon, a grammarian, 96
Assyrian literature, preservation of, 152
Athanasius, 146
Athenæus, on libraries and book-collectors, 89; cited, 89, 95, 96, 100, 142
Athens, the public library of, taken to Persia by Xerxes, restored by Seleucus, 89; the book-shops of, 114
Attali, the rivalry of, with the Ptolemies in collecting manuscripts, 116
Atticus, sojourn of, in Athens, 117; brings manuscripts to Rome, 118; organizes a publishing establishment, 184; issues Greek classics, 184; relations with Cicero, 186, 190
“Attikians,” term given to editions issued by Atticus, 184
Attilius, put to death for permitting the Sibylline books to be copied, 244
Augustan Age, Writers of the, 202, 204
Augustus orders the pseudo-Sibylline books to be burned, 264
B
Bark of trees used for writing by the Homeric Greeks, 155
Barthelémi, his Travels of Anacharsis cited, 76
Basil II., directs the writing of the Basilics, 287; writes histories of Rome and Greece, 288
Berosus, translations by, 139
Birt, cited, 89, 104, 110, 130, 141, 142, 153, 155, 249, 256, 263
Boeckh, cited, 92, 97
Boëthius, described by Hodgkin, 280; writings of, 280
Bologna, influence of the University of, in publishing undertakings, 295
Book collecting fashionable in Rome after the first century, 125
Bookmaking terms in Rome borrowed from Alexandria, 162
Book of Odes, the (in China), 23
Book of the Dead, the, 12-14
Books, in Alexandria, divisions of, 143; ancient, materials used for, 149; distribution and sale of, throughout the Empire, 255; when considered injurious proceeded against under the criminal law, 267; average duration of the copies, 271
Booksellers, crucified by Domitian, 244; in Rome, principal customers of, 245
Bookselling in Athens, the business of, 102; referred to in the comedies, 102
Book-shops in Rome, decrease of, after Constantine, 275
Book terminology, 149
Book-trade of Rome influenced by the removal of the capital, 276
Boustrophedon, the, 57
Brahmanic priests, the writings of the, 45
Breulier, A., on literary property in Greece, cited, 55, 90
Bruns, cited, 83
Buchsenschutz, cited, 97
Buddha, or Gautama, the work of, 45
Burckhardt, cited, 265, 266
Bursian, cited, 247
Byzantine Court, literary interests of, 283; writers attached to the, 290
Byzantine literature, characteristics of, 289; described by Gibbon, 290
Byzantine State, characterized by Lecky, 291; character of, analyzed by Oman, 292
Byzantium, the scribes of, 290
C
Cæcilius, comedies of, 179
Caligula, undertakes to suppress the writings of Homer, 264; orders taken from the libraries the busts and the writings of Virgil and Livy, 264
Callimachus, poet and editor, describes the Alexandrian Library, 130, 137
Calvisius, pays high prices for scribes, 181
Carthage, the literary school of, 261
Cassiodorus, writings of, 279
Cato, the Origines of, 180
Caunus, inhabitants of, admirers of Euripides, 99
Cecrops, the Milesian, edits poems of Hesiod, 66
Censorship of books under the Emperors, 264
Cephisodorus, cited, 80
Cephisophon, slave of Euripides, 91
Chabas, discoverer of the Prisse papyrus, 15
Chaldea, early literature of, 5-9; authors of, 8
Chaldean “books,” methods of preparing, 150
Chares, slave of Lycon, 115
Cheops, or Khufa, 12
China, beginnings of literature in, 22; first use of written characters in, 23; first printing in, 29
Chinese authors, rewards of, 37
Chinese classics, the early, 30
Chinese literature, the golden age of, 36
Chinese writing materials, 28
Church of Rome, influence of, on literary production and on the preservation of books, 274
Cicero, to Atticus concerning De Finibus, 79; reference of, to Hermodorus, 79; birth of, 180; relations with Atticus, 186-190; right to publish the works of, purchased by Dorus, 244; Ad Quintum cited, 247; De Finibus cited, 249
Clearchus, library of, 91
Clement, Paul, on literary property in Greece, cited, 54, 62, 77, 90; on plagiarism in Greece, 77
Codex Argenteus, 284
Codex Parisinus of Demosthenes, authority for, 124
College, the Royal, of Constantinople, 286
Comedy, derivation of the term, 65
Comnena, Anna, writes the Alexias, 288
Comum, the library of, 246
Confucius, 24, 25, 27
Constantine orders the writings of Arius to be burned, 266
Constantine Porphyrogenitus, the writings of, 286
Constantinople, established as the capital of the Empire, 282; literary production in, 282; the Royal College of, 286; the fall of, 292; destruction of manuscripts in, 292
Cordus, the impecunious, 247
Corea, early printing in, 29
Corinth, capture of, 116
Crassus, Marcus, educates slaves as copyists, 183
Cratinus, The Mechanics of, 103
Cruttwell, cited, 252
Ctesias, cited, 158
Cyril, Bishop of Alexandria, 146
D
Demetrius, the Cynic, 100
Demetrius Phalerius, reference of, to the Alexandrian Library, 130
Democritus, on the Science of Nature, 83
Demosthenes, 69, 109
Developments, the Book of, 24
Dieulafoy, work of, in Chaldea, 7
Diocletian, orders the destruction of works on alchemy, 265; orders the books of the Manichæans to be burned, 265; orders the Scriptures of the Christians to be destroyed, 266
Diogenes Akritas, 289
Diogenes Laërtius, cited, 88, 112-115, 119, 155, 263
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 112
Diphtherai (dressed skins), use of, 138
Domitian, restores libraries burned by Nero, 247; orders books from Alexandria, 247
Dorus purchases the “remainders” of the editions of Cicero, 244
Drumann, cited, 118
E
Eckhard on the term “grammarians,” 136
Editions of Roman publications, 255
Edwards, Amelia B., version of the Tale of Two Brothers, 20
Egypt, early literature of, 10-20
Egyptian Märchen, 21
English dramatists, relations of, with French literature, 171
Ennius, the “father of Latin literature,” his Sicilian cookery-book, 178
Epaphroditus, the library of, 249
Ephesus, curious books burned in, 118
Etruscans, the inscriptions of, 57
Euclid, 132
Eudocia, the Empress, writings of, 283
Eudocia, wife of Romanus, writes treatise on the genealogies of the gods, 288
Eumenes II., furthers the production of parchment, 158
Euphorion, plagiarism of, 76
Eupolis, refers to booksellers, 104
Euripides, library of, 91; popularity of the songs of, 99; recitations from, by Alexander, 100; the Bacchantes of, 101
Eusebius, on the duration of books, 271
Eustathius I., writings of, 288
F
Fei-ke-mono-gatari, the (Annals), 42
Flood, the, Chaldean account of, 9
Folk-songs of India, 45
Freeman, on Athenian audiences, 86
French, the literary language of the eighteenth century, 171
Fronto, the writings of, 261
Fu-hi, the Emperor, 22
G
Gaius on immaterial property, 269
Galen, cited, 124, 157
Gâthas, the hymns of Persia, 47
Gautama, or Buddha, the work of, 45
Gellius, Aulus, cited, 81, 89, 246
Géraud, on the influence of the priestly caste on literature, 56; on the journey of Trajan, 164
Gibbon, on the Royal College of Constantinople, 285; on the library of Photius, 287; on the histories of Anna Comnena, 288
Gnosticism in Alexandria, 147
Golden Meadows, the, of El-Mesoudee, 49
Gospels, the Gothic version of, 284
“Grammarians,” the, of the Alexandrian Academy, 133
“Grammarians” as buyers of books, 248
Greece, the early literature of, 53; introduction of the alphabet into, 56; reading and writing in early, 61
Greek books, costliness of, 93
Greek classics, distribution of, throughout the Empire, 262
Greek manuscripts, careless copying of, referred to by Strabo, 120
Greek language and literature, the knowledge of, throughout Europe furthered by the fall of Constantinople, 294
Greek, the literary language of early Rome, 116, 166; the language of higher education in later Rome, 259
Greek written characters, first example of, 58
Greeks, the trained memories of, 106, 107, 108
Gutenberg and his printing-press, 295
H
Hammer, von, cited, 49
Harpalus, friend of Alexander, 111; purchases books in Athens, 111
Hebrew literature, the golden age of, 50, 52
Hebrews, early literature of, 49
Heeren, editor of the works of Stobæus, 287
Hercules, prefers cookery to poetry, 96
Hermann, cited, 98
Hermes Trismegistus, 11
Hermetic books of Egypt, 11
Hermodoros sells reports of Plato’s lectures, 78
Hermogenes of Tarsus killed by Domitian, 245
Herodotus, the Histories of, 84-86; in Thurium, 85; cited, 155
Hesiod, poems of, 66; his Works and Days, 66
Hezar Afsaneh, the (the thousand fanciful stories), 49
Hezekiah, the age of, 50
Hoang-ti, the Emperor, invents decimal system, etc., 23
Hodgkin, T., his Theodoric the Goth cited, 281
Homeric poems, collected under Pisistratus, 66
Hommel, Fritz, work of, in Chaldea, 7
Horace, on the cost of learned slaves, 181; on plagiarists, 202
Hostius, the Histories of, 180
Hwang-ti, the Emperor, issues an index expurgatorius, 33; orders destruction of classic literature, 34
I
Iliad, miniature copy of the, described by Pliny, 118
India, earliest literature of, 44
Indian monasteries, manuscripts in the, 46
Indian writers, compensation of, 46
Indian writing materials, 46
Iran and Turan, 48
Isaiah, cited, 145
Isocrates, price paid him for discourses, 77; cited, 88; his letters to Philip, 109; the Parathenaicus of, 110
Italicus, the libraries of, 249
Izanaghi and Izanami, creators of the Japanese world, 40
J
Japan, early literature of; early writing materials, 39, 40
Japan, the theatre of, 42
Japanese authors, the rewards of, 43
Jerome, controversial letters of, 267
Jevons, Hist. Greek Lit. cited, 58-63
Jewish law, the, against false words, 52
Johnson’s Universal Cyclopedia, cited, 156
Josephus, reference of, to the Alexandrian Library, 130
Judæa, early literature of, 49
Jurists of Rome on immaterial property, 267
Justinian, opinion in the Institutes of, on immaterial property, 269
Juvenal, cited, 247; on the poet’s profession, 252
K
Kallinus, the scribe, 115
Karpeles on early Egyptian literature, 12-16; on literature in China, 23
Khufa or Cheops, 12
Kingsley’s Hypatia, 146
Kiriath Sepher, or the Quarter of the Grammarians, 136
Klostermann, on Roman jurisprudence, 268
Kang-Hi, the Emperor, interested in printing, 29
Krates, the Cynic, 114
L
Labeo, the jurist, writings of, 255
Lamothe, cited, 75
Latin, the literary language of mediæval Europe, 171
Latin language, discontinuance of, in the Greek Empire, 285
Latin literature affected by the removal of the capital to Byzantium, 276
Layard, Sir Henry, discoveries in Chaldea, 5; cited, 149
Lead, sheets of, used for public documents, 154
Legge, on early Chinese literature, 23
Leo the Isaurian, 285
Leo the Wise, writings of, 286
Libellous publications, punishments for the circulation of, 245; when held to be treasonable, 267
Libraries, in Rome, 245; in the public baths and in country houses, 249; renewals of books in, 270
Library, of the Temple of Apollo, 245; of the College in Athens, 247
Li-ki, the, or Book of Conduct, 32
Linen sheets, use of, for private records, 154
Linus, instructor of Hercules, 96
“Literary Emperors,” the, of Constantinople, 286
Literature, the beginnings of, 1
Livy, Histories of, published by Dorus, 196
Lollianus, Mavertius, 262
Lucian, cited, 84, 100; criticises the bad work done by the Athenian publishers, 123; works of, in demand thirty years after the author’s death, 250
Lucretius, on The Nature of Things, 196
Lucullus brings to Rome books from Athens, 116
Lün-yü, the, or Conversations, 32
Lycon, Peripatetic philosopher, 115
Lycophron, 132
M
Ma, Egyptian goddess of truth, 11
Macedonia, book collectors in, 96
Mæcenas, his influence on literary production, 251
Mahaffy, on use of memory in Greece, 63; on the writings of Hesiod, 66; on Athenian audiences, 86; analyzes the character of Alexandrian literature, 135; describes the Alexandrian University, 129
Manuscripts, destruction of, in Constantinople, 292; taken by Greek scholars to Italy and Germany, 293
Man-yo-sin, the (collection of ballads), 41
Marcellinus, cited, 87
Martial, the library of, 250; on plagiarism, 204; on the compensation of authors, 233, 252; on presentation copies, 208, 209, 210; on the prices of his books, 214; his four publishers, 216; as an advertiser and as a blackmailer, 206, 253
Massilia, as a centre of higher education, 259
Maternus, Firmicus, the Mathesis of, 262
Meineke, cited, 103, 104, 156
Melanippides, the poetry of, 105
Ménant, cited, 151
Mencius, the work of, 28
Mengtsze, the, 32
Metamorphoses, the Book of the, 24
Mnaseas, father of Zeno, 111
Moore’s Lectures, cited, 134
Müller, on Aristophanes, cited, 94, 95
N
Nepos, Cornelius, his Life of Atticus, 175
Niceratus, 106
Nichomachus, the arithmetician, 132
Nicocles pays Isocrates for discourses, 77
Nicophon refers to booksellers, 103
Nineveh, royal library of, 5
Notarii, definition of, 183
Nü Kiai, the, or Female Precepts, 35
O
Oman, C. W. C., on Byzantine literary history, 285; the Byzantine Empire, 286
Origen refers to the “swift writers of Alexandria,” 125
P
Palimpsest, or codex rescriptus, 161
Pammachius attempts to suppress letters of St. Jerome, 266
Pan Chao, a female historian, 35
Papyrus, cost of, in Greece, 94; monopoly of, in Alexandria, 138; disappearance of, in Egypt, 144; used for cordage, 154; destructibility of, 270
Papyrus rolls, size of, 141
Parchment, invention of, 137
Paris, influence of the University of, in publishing undertakings, 295
Paul orders books burned in Ephesus, 118
Penta-on, the poem of, 17
Pergamentum, derivation of term, 138
Pergamum, as a literary centre, 138; the royal library of, presented by Antony to Cleopatra, 89; the library of, transferred to Alexandria, 140
Pericles reduces price of seats in theatre, 76
Persia, earliest literature of, 47
Persian priests, 48; poets, 48; minstrels, 48; story-tellers, 48; reciters, 49; writing materials, 49
Peters, Jno. P., work of, in Chaldea, 7; on the age of Hezekiah, 50, 51
Petronius, cited, 249
Phædon of Elis, 105
Philoxenus of Cythera, 105
Photius, cited, 91; the library catalogue of, 287
Pi-Shing invents printing from movable type, 29
Pisistratus, tyrant of Athens, 65; bequeaths his books to Athens, 89
Piso, the annals of, 180
Plagiarism, in Greece, 73; in Alexandria, 74; in Rome, 204
Plato, influence of, on the literary life of Athens, 77; lectures of, 78; the Timæus of, 72, 124; reference of, to the book-trade of Athens, 97; writer of comedies, 103
Plautus, earns money by his comedies, 179; loses money as a miller, 179
Pliny, gives a library to Comum, 246; on the service to literature rendered by Varro, 256; on the importance of papyrus, 259; on the duration of books, 271; letters of, cited, 153, 249, 255, 265
Plutarch, the plagiarism of, 73; cited, 84, 89, 110, 111, 116, 157
Porphyry of Tyre, writings of, 266
Priests of Egypt, connection with the Book of the Dead, 14
Printing, invention of, in China, 29
Priscus, poems of, on Germanicus and on Drusus, 251; put to death by the Senate, 252
Prisse papyrus, the, 15
Procopius, writings of, 285
Proculus on immaterial property, 268
Prodicus, a poem of, 96
Pronapis initiates writing from left to right, 57
Protagoras, receives pay for instruction, 84; writings of, burned as heretical, 119
Psammaticus, king, 58
Ptah-Hotep, the Precepts of, 14, 15
Ptolemies, rivalry of, with the Attali in collecting books, 116
Ptolemy Soter founds the Alexandrian Museum, 128
Ptolemy Philadelphus, develops the Alexandrian Museum into an Academy and University, 128; prohibits export of papyrus, 138
Publishers of Greece do not associate their names with the works issued by them, 121
Q
Quintilian, salary of, as state rhetorician, 254
R
Ragozin, Story of Chaldea, 10, 151
Rameses II., Reign of, 17, 18
Rangabé, cited, 94
Rawlinson, George, summary of Egyptian literature, 18, 19
Rawnsley, H. D., Notes for the Nile, 15; metrical versions of Egyptian hymns, 17
Reciting in Greece of literary productions, 64
Regulus, M. Aquilus, writes the memoir of his son, 255
Renouard, on Jewish plagiarism, 52; cited, 244, 267
Rhapsodists, the, of Greece, 64
Rhodes, a centre of book production, 116
Ritsche, cited, 156
Ritter, cited, 117
Rolls, of papyrus, size of, 141
Roman authors, as “appropriators,” 166; their difficulties in securing a public, 168
Roman jurists on immaterial property, 267
Roman literature, beginnings of, 163
Roman publishers, business connection of, with Alexandria, 170
Roman Republic gives no aid to literary undertakings, 174
Romances of chivalry in Byzantium, 289
Rome, becomes a literary centre, 146; capture of, by Alaric, 278; capture of, by Odoacer, 279; capture of, by Theodoric, 279; influence of Greece upon the early literature of, 165
Rozoir’s Dictionnaire, cited, 69
Rustem, the legend of, 48
Rusticus, Junius, Laudation by, 265
S
Sabinus, Petronius, copies the Sibylline books, 244
Sabinus on immaterial property, 268
Sammoaicus, the library of, 249
Sanscrit literature, the earliest, 44
Sapor II. and the Avesta, 48
Sauppe on the Codex Parisinus of Demosthenes, 124
Scævola, the Annales Maximi of, 180
Schaefer, cited, 109
Schi-king, the, 32
Schmitz, W., on writers and booksellers in Greece, cited, 55, 90, 98, 111
Scholars of Byzantium scattered through Europe after the capture of the city, 293
Schöll, cited, 134
Schu, the, (“books,”) in China, 30
Schu-king, the, 31
Scribes, in Egypt, 20; in Athens, 105; in Alexandria, 137
Seneca, cited, 181, 244
Senecio, Herennius, the Laudation by, 265
Septuagint, the, begun in Alexandria 285 B.C., 136
Servus literatus, requirements for a, 182
Sibylline books, ownership in, claimed by the State, 234
Sigean inscription, 57
Simcox, cited, 163, 177, 178, 179, 245, 250-253, 255, 260, 261
Skytale, the, 60
Smith, George, work in London and in Chaldea, 5, 7, 150
Smyrna, the library of, 247
Solon, the laws of, 57
Songs (Chinese), the Book of, 24
Sophists, the, 65
Sosii, the, 202
Soto-oro-ime, Empress and poet, 41
Stahr’s Aristotle, cited, 90
Statius, the Thebaïd of, 254
Stella, his poem on the “Wars of the Giants,” 251
St. John, Second Epistle of, written on papyrus, 160
Stobæus, the writings of, 286
Strabo, refers to incorrect text of Greek manuscripts, 120; refers to bookmaking in Alexandria, 137; complains as to the inaccuracy of books, 182
Suetonius, his Life of Domitian, cited, 244, 247, 264; his Ludicra, 260
Suidas, cited, 76, 154; reference of, to Hermodoros, 79; the Lexicon of, 288; the plays of, 288
Susanoo arranges sounds into syllables, 40
Sylla, a collector of Greek books, 117; purchases the manuscripts of Aristotle and Theophrastus, 117
Syria, under the Seleucids, a home of Hellenism, 139
T
Tablets of baked clay, 149
Tablets of wax, known to Homer, in use with the Romans, 154
Tacitus, the Agricola of, cited, 265
Tacitus, the Emperor, orders the histories of his ancestor to be placed in the public libraries, 257
Tacitus, the historian, cited, 251; education of, 257; writings of, 258
Tagenistæ, the, of Aristophanes, 61
Telegraph, the London, employs George Smith in Chaldea, 6
Temple, the copyists of the, 52
Terence, translates plates from the Greek, 179; receives pay for stage-rights, 225
Tertullian, the writings of, 261
Testament, the New, almost the only literary production of importance in Syrian Greek, 139
Theatre, in Greece, cost of admission to, 76
Theocritus, work of, in Alexandria, 132
Theognis, the Megarian, the device of, 61
Theological writings distributed without profit to their authors, 147
Theopompus, the Philippics of, 72; refers to booksellers, 103
Thoth-Hermes, god of wisdom and literature, 11
Thucydides, listens to Herodotus, 86; the daughter of, 87
Tiberius orders certain historical writings taken from the libraries, 264
Tibullus gives copies of his books to the Palatine Library, 246
Tibur, the library of, 246
Timon, 132
Tiron, the freedman and friend of Cicero, 184
Trajan, Asiatic expeditions of, 164
Tribonianus on immaterial property, 268
Trimalchio, the libraries of, 249
Tschun-tshien, the, 32
Tsengtze, the work of, 28
Type first used in China, 29
Tyrannion edits writings of Aristotle, 90, 120
Tzetzes, John, describes the Alexandrian Library, 130; the Chiliads of, 288
U
Ulfilas translates the Bible into Gothic, 284
Undertakers, the, of Egypt, the first booksellers, 13
V
Varro, the writings of, 256
Vedas, the, 44, 45
Vendidad, the, 47
Virey, P., translation of Ptah-Hotep’s Precepts, 16
Virgil, the Æneid of, 198
Visparad, the, 47
Vitruvius, cited, 74
W
Wade, Sir Thomas, cited, 36
Wang Pih-ho, compiles a horn-book, 36
Wilkinson, cited, 145, 152
Williams, S. Wells, quoted, 27-36
Women as scribes, 183
X
Xenophon, home of, at Scillus, 88; his method in the Anabasis, 88; completes the Cyropædia, 88; death of, 88; literary undertakings of, 88; reference of, to books saved from a wreck, 101
Y
Yasna, the, 47
Yescht-Sade, the, 47
Yih, the councillor, 31
Y-king, the, or Book of the Metamorphoses, 24
Z
Zeller, cited, 82
Zend-Avesta, the, 47
Zeno, the shipwreck of, 113
Zenodotus establishes the first grammar-school in Athens, 133
Zoroaster, or Zarathustra, 47
