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Little Horror Stories in an Oxyrhynchus Papyrus: A Re-Edition and Commentary of P.Oxy. II 218

  • Irene Pajón Leyra
Published/Copyright: December 5, 2014
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Abstract

P.Oxy. II 218 transmits a curious mixture of ethnographic and mythographic material, one of the few testimonies to the circulation of paradoxographic literature in Antiquity. In the central column it offers two ethnographic descriptions: a severe punishment for male infidelity and a strange ritual to be held on the death of a priest of Ares. Other sections preserve the remnants of a story of a flood sent by a god and a very unusual version of the myth of Zeus and Metis. This article presents a re-edition of and a new commentary on the papyrus.

Online erschienen: 2014-12-5
Erschienen im Druck: 2014-12-1

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