UID:
almafu_9959673721902883
Format:
1 online resource (XXXII, 542 p.)
ISBN:
9783110295085
Series Statement:
Sozomena ; 18
Content:
Adespota Papyracea Hexametra Graeca provides a comprehensive corpus of ‘anonymous’ hexameter texts on papyri, parchments, ostraca and tablets that have appeared in the current and past two centuries. The project has three main objectives: i) to retrieve and determine how many and what type of unidentified hexameter poems reached us via Egyptian papyri; ii) to restore a readable and reliable text for these poems, providing straightforward access to material that has been hard-to-reach in print format, is still unavailable online, or has not been previously translated into English or any other modern language; iii) to discuss, insofar as the fragmentary state of the evidence allows, issues of style, metre, and attribution. Overall, it aspires to serve as a fresh and solid starting-point for future assessment of Greek poetry in Egypt from the Archaic period to Late Antiquity. This first volume of papyrus adespota contains: i) a catalogue of hexameter adespota, and ii) critical editions with English translation and commentary of: cosmologies and foundation poems (no. 01–06), astronomical and astrological texts (07–12), didactic and technical poetry (13–16), hymns (17–32), fragments of erotic content (33–38); epithalamia (39–43); and two hexameter anthologies, the Goodspeed papyrus (44) and the so-called Pamprepius codex (45). Future volumes will contain: Encomia and Lamentations (46–67); Bucolic (68–71), and Epic poetry (72–144); assemblages of Homeric verses (145–154); magical verses (155–166); oracles (167–169); fragments of uncertain genre or content (170–204); hexameter "es from grammatical papyri and ancient commentaries (205–216); παίγνια (217–219); gnomic hexameters (220–221); pangrams (222–235); texts copied or produced within a school context (236–242).
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Adespota Papyracea Hexametra Graeca (APHex I) --
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Frontmatter --
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Preface --
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Contents --
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Abbreviations --
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Publication Plan --
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Introduction --
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Structure and Content of the Work --
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Anonymized Authorities? --
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Doing Adespota in the Age of Technology --
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When Attribution Fails --
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Limits to Interpretation and the Challenges of Attribution --
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Some Concluding Remarks --
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Fragments of Cosmogonic Content and Foundation Poems --
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01. P.Strasb. 481. Hermes Founder of the Cosmos (and Hermoupolis Magna?) --
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02. (a, b) P.Lond. Lit. 178 = P.Oxy. 221. Achelous, Origin of the Sea --
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03. P.Oxy. XXXVII 2816. Invocation to the Muses/Cosmogony --
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04. P.Berol. inv. 9564. Aphrodite Urania and the Birth of the Cosmos --
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05. P.Oxy. XXX 2515. Anger of Poseidon, Turmoil of the Elements --
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06. P.Vindob. G 29805. Poseidon’s Trident: the Foundation of Thasos? --
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Didactic and Technical Poetry: Astronomical and Astrological --
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07. SP.Oxy. XV 1822. On Comets --
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08. P.Oxy. XX 2258. C fr. 1 (‘back’) marg. 29-33. Coma Berenices --
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09. P.Oxy. XXX 2521. Fabricating Constellations --
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10. P.Oxy. LXXXIII 5349. The Arrival of Autumn --
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11. P.Ryl. III 488. Astrological Poem --
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12. PSI III 157. The Lot of Fortune? --
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Didactic and Technical Poetry: Other --
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13. VP.Köln VI 244. Viperids --
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14. P.Oxy. XV 1796. The Sycamore and the Persea during the Nile Flood --
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15. P.Oxy. L 3536. The Glassblower --
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16. P.Berol. inv. 9734.5-6, 8-10 = BKTV2, pp.140-2. Hexametrical Treatise on Metre --
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Hymns --
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17. P.Köln I 6. Hymn to a Universal God (Sarapis?) --
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18. P.Berol. inv. 9779 = P.Schubart 12.1-11. Hymn to Sarapis --
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19. PSI VII 844. Hymn to Isis --
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20. PSI XV 1482. Hymn to Eirene --
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21. P.Ross. Georg. I 11. The Punishment of Lycurgus: Hymn to Dionysus --
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22. P.Oxy. IV 670. Hera Enchained on Her Throne: Hymn to Dionysus? --
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23. P. Berol. inv. 21167 = BKTIX 70. (Hymn to?) Bacchus (and Persephone?) --
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24. P.Ryl. III 494. The Return of Persephone? Hymn to Demeter --
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25. P.Amh. II 16. Triptolemus: Hymn to Demeter? --
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26. P.Ant. II 59. The Barren Land (Hymn to Demeter?) --
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27. P.Harr. I 6. Hymn (?) to Demeter or the Mother of the Gods --
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28. P.Mich. III 139. Hymn to Gaia or the Mother of the Gods? --
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29. P. Köln VI 242. Hymn to Aphrodite. Seafaring --
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30. P.Lond. Lit. 37. Hermes, Zeus (and Athena?) --
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31. P.Berol. inv. 5227 = BKTV2, p147(b). Apollo Setting Foot on Delos: Hymn to Apollo? --
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32. P.Berol. inv. 21139 = BKTIX 40. Leto and Asteria: Hymn to Apollo? --
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Erotic Poetry: Hero and Leander --
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33. P.Ryl. III 486. Speech of Hero --
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34. P.Berol. inv. 21249 = BKTIX153. Leander at Sea --
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Erotic Poetry: Other --
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35. PSI XIV 1389. The Unsuccessful Wooer --
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36. P.Köln II 63. The Sorrowful Woman (Medea to Jason?) --
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37. PSI XV 1468. Seduction Scene (Theseus and Ariadne?) --
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38. P.Ant. III 117. The Malady of Love --
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Epithalamia --
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39. P.Lond.Lit. 38. Apollo, Galatea --
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40. P.Ryl. I 17. Wedding Card to the Bride --
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41. P.Hal. 2. The Herculean Bridegroom --
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42. P.Oxy. III 423. The Wedding of the Nile and Egypt --
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43. PSI VII 845. (a) Address to the Nile, Bridegroom of Egyptian Land + (b) Hymn to the Muse/Orpheus? --
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Two Hexameter Anthologies --
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44. P.Lit. Goodspeed 2 --
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45. P.Vindob. G 29788 A-C --
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Bibliography --
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Images and Plates --
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Digital Reproductions of Papyri Online --
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List of Plates --
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Indexes and Concordances --
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Index Papyrorum --
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Index Nominum --
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Index Verborum --
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Tables of Concordances
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110295030
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110295085
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110295085
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110295085
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110295085
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110295085
