Overview
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).
Full Product Details
Author: Marco Perale
Publisher: De Gruyter
Imprint: De Gruyter
Edition: Digital original
Weight: 0.955kg
ISBN: 9783110295030
ISBN 10: 3110295032
Pages: 574
Publication Date: 12 October 2020
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"""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)"
""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)
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)
Author Information
Marco Perale, University of Liverpool, UK.
