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Borges, Cassandra, Sampson, C. Michael - New Literary Papyri from the Michigan Collection: Mythographic Lyric and a Catalogue of Poetic First Lines (New Texts from Ancient Cultures) - 9780472118076 - V9780472118076
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New Literary Papyri from the Michigan Collection: Mythographic Lyric and a Catalogue of Poetic First Lines (New Texts from Ancient Cultures)

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Description for New Literary Papyri from the Michigan Collection: Mythographic Lyric and a Catalogue of Poetic First Lines (New Texts from Ancient Cultures) Hardcover. Three new fragments from amongst the oldest Greek papyri Num Pages: 200 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 2AHA; 2CXG; DSBB; DSC; GBCR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.

New texts from Greek antiquity continue to emerge on scraps of papyrus from the sands of Egypt, not only adding to the surviving corpus of classical and Hellenistic literature, but also occasionally offering a glimpse into how these poems were studied in antiquity. New Literary Papyri from the Michigan Collection: Mythographic Lyric and a Catalogue of Poetic First Lines presents three such new texts: an innovative lyric poem on the Trojan cycle, a scholarly anthology of lyric verses, and a brief but enigmatic third text. Cassandra Borges and C. Michael Sampson offer the original Greek text of these pieces, along ... Read more

The fragments collected here are of considerable antiquity (late third to second century BCE) a fact that is significant inasmuch as it places them among the oldest Greek papyri, but all the more so because in this period, a scholarly community was thriving in Ptolemaic Alexandria, the political and cultural capital of Hellenistic Egypt. The fragments bear witness to that scholarly activity: not only is their anthology of poetic verses consistent with other scholarly selections, but the very survival of these texts may well be at least partially indebted to the work of the Alexandrians in studying and propagating Greek literature in Egypt.

This edition supplements the 1970s work of Reinhold Merkelbach and Denys Page. Recent digitizing for the APIS project revealed a previously unsuspected join with other material, however, which alone warrants a new, comprehensive edition and analysis.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472118076
SKU
V9780472118076
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About Borges, Cassandra, Sampson, C. Michael
Cassandra Borges is a CFD Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in Classics at Bowdoin College. C. Michael Sampson is Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Manitoba.

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