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

Marco Perale

Published by De Gruyter 2020

Volume I APHex I

Marco Perale

Part of the multi-volume work Adespota Papyracea Hexametra Graeca (APHEX)

Volume 18 in the series Sozomena

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110295085

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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).

Author / Editor information

Marco Perale, University of Liverpool, UK.

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)

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

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics, libraries, institutes, individuals interested in epic poetry, ancient Greek hymns, Greek and Roman history, astronomical poetry
Pages
- Front matter: 32
- Main content: 542
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 27
Keywords: Adespota; hexametrical texts; papyri; cosmology

eBook

Published: October 12, 2020
ISBN: 9783110295085

Hardcover

Published: October 12, 2020
ISBN: 9783110295030