Volume I APHex I: Hexameters of Unknown or Uncertain Authorship from Graeco-Roman Egypt

Marco Perale

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Volume I APHex I

Marco Perale

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Adespota Papyracea Hexametra Graeca (APHEX)

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Published/Copyright: 2020

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Volume 18 | Sozomena

About this book

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 quotes 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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Marco Perale, University of Liverpool, UK.

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"The editor and de Gruyter deserve the highest praise for the superlative production of a long, complex and supremely scholarly volume which must have demanded and received attention of the very highest order." Colin Leach in: Classics for All, https://classicsforall.org.uk/reading-room/book-reviews/adespota-papyracea-hexametra-graeca-hexameters-unknown-or-uncertain (12.02.2021)

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Publication Plan Publicly Available Download PDF	xvii
Introduction
Structure and Content of the Work Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Anonymized Authorities? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	5
Doing Adespota in the Age of Technology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	12
When Attribution Fails Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	16
Limits to Interpretation and the Challenges of Attribution Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	22
Some Concluding Remarks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	28
Fragments of Cosmogonic Content and Foundation Poems
01. P.Strasb. 481. Hermes Founder of the Cosmos (and Hermoupolis Magna?) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	33
02. (a, b) P.Lond. Lit. 178 = P.Oxy. 221. Achelous, Origin of the Sea Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	84
03. P.Oxy. XXXVII 2816. Invocation to the Muses/Cosmogony Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	91
04. P.Berol. inv. 9564. Aphrodite Urania and the Birth of the Cosmos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	102
05. P.Oxy. XXX 2515. Anger of Poseidon, Turmoil of the Elements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	111
06. P.Vindob. G 29805. Poseidon’s Trident: the Foundation of Thasos? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	119
Didactic and Technical Poetry: Astronomical and Astrological
07. SP.Oxy. XV 1822. On Comets Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	125
08. P.Oxy. XX 2258. C fr. 1 (‘back’) marg. 29-33. Coma Berenices Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	134
09. P.Oxy. XXX 2521. Fabricating Constellations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	140
10. P.Oxy. LXXXIII 5349. The Arrival of Autumn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	148
11. P.Ryl. III 488. Astrological Poem Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	153
12. PSI III 157. The Lot of Fortune? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	157
Didactic and Technical Poetry: Other
13. VP.Köln VI 244. Viperids Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	171
14. P.Oxy. XV 1796. The Sycamore and the Persea during the Nile Flood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	177
15. P.Oxy. L 3536. The Glassblower Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	194
16. P.Berol. inv. 9734.5-6, 8-10 = BKTV₂, pp.140-2. Hexametrical Treatise on Metre Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	200
Hymns
17. P.Köln I 6. Hymn to a Universal God (Sarapis?) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	207
18. P.Berol. inv. 9779 = P.Schubart 12.1-11. Hymn to Sarapis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	213
19. PSI VII 844. Hymn to Isis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	218
20. PSI XV 1482. Hymn to Eirene Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	224
21. P.Ross. Georg. I 11. The Punishment of Lycurgus: Hymn to Dionysus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	233
22. P.Oxy. IV 670. Hera Enchained on Her Throne: Hymn to Dionysus? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	253
23. P. Berol. inv. 21167 = BKTIX 70. (Hymn to?) Bacchus (and Persephone?) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	262
24. P.Ryl. III 494. The Return of Persephone? Hymn to Demeter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	266
25. P.Amh. II 16. Triptolemus: Hymn to Demeter? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	268
26. P.Ant. II 59. The Barren Land (Hymn to Demeter?) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	273
27. P.Harr. I 6. Hymn (?) to Demeter or the Mother of the Gods Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	276
28. P.Mich. III 139. Hymn to Gaia or the Mother of the Gods? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	280
29. P. Köln VI 242. Hymn to Aphrodite. Seafaring Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	290
30. P.Lond. Lit. 37. Hermes, Zeus (and Athena?) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	305
31. P.Berol. inv. 5227 = BKTV₂, p147(b). Apollo Setting Foot on Delos: Hymn to Apollo? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	308
32. P.Berol. inv. 21139 = BKTIX 40. Leto and Asteria: Hymn to Apollo? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	311
Erotic Poetry: Hero and Leander
33. P.Ryl. III 486. Speech of Hero Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	317
34. P.Berol. inv. 21249 = BKTIX153. Leander at Sea Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	323
Erotic Poetry: Other
35. PSI XIV 1389. The Unsuccessful Wooer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	335
36. P.Köln II 63. The Sorrowful Woman (Medea to Jason?) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	343
37. PSI XV 1468. Seduction Scene (Theseus and Ariadne?) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	352
38. P.Ant. III 117. The Malady of Love Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	357
Epithalamia
39. P.Lond.Lit. 38. Apollo, Galatea Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	363
40. P.Ryl. I 17. Wedding Card to the Bride Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	371
41. P.Hal. 2. The Herculean Bridegroom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	374
42. P.Oxy. III 423. The Wedding of the Nile and Egypt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	380
43. PSI VII 845. (a) Address to the Nile, Bridegroom of Egyptian Land + (b) Hymn to the Muse/Orpheus? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	383
Two Hexameter Anthologies
44. P.Lit. Goodspeed 2 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	393
45. P.Vindob. G 29788 A-C Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	422
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	463
Images and Plates
Digital Reproductions of Papyri Online Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	497
List of Plates Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	499
Indexes and Concordances
Index Papyrorum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	503
Index Nominum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	508
Index Verborum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	511
Tables of Concordances Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	540

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October 12, 2020

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9783110295085

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October 12, 2020

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Front matter:

32

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542

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27

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110295085

eBook ISBN: 9783110295085

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110295030

Keywords for this book

Adespota; hexametrical texts; papyri; cosmology

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Academics, libraries, institutes, individuals interested in epic poetry, ancient Greek hymns, Greek and Roman history, astronomical poetry

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