Il commercio dei libri nell'Egitto greco-romano

The limited occurence of the term bibliopoles, hapax in the papyri and rarely attested in Greek texts, should be related to book circulation in Greco-Roman Egypt, which flourished mostly through private copying. A large number of private letters and catalogues of book-titles on papyrus shows that not only in the most important cities of Egypt, like Alexandria, but also in the chora, there must have been a fairly large readership and an active booktrade.