Literacy and the Languages of the Early Common Law
Peter Goodrich
The most famous of the libraries antiquity was a collection manuscripts brought together by first Ptolemies in third century B.C. Alexandria. This apogee antique literary science2 under one roof Museion - some 500,000 and an academy scholars dedicated to systematic philological research. In form cult organisation priest Muses, Alexandrian library produced number early forms educational grammar elaborate classification earlier literature according schemata authorship genre. Interestingly, however, this ancient exemplary monument textual culture cannot be simply recorded as instance growth knowledge ascendancy technologies written form.
Journal of Law and Society