Adespota papyracea hexametra graeca (APHex) : Hexameters of unknown or uncertain authorship from Graeco-Roman Egypt / Marco Perale.

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Perale, Marco, 1957- [Browse]
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Book
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English
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Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2020]-
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volumes : color illustrations ; 24 cm.

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    • Sozomena (Berlin, Germany) ; v. 18. [More in this series]
    • Sozomena : studies in the recovery of ancient texts, 1869-6368 ; volume 18
    Summary note
    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.--provided by publisher.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Preface
    • Abbreviations
    • Publication Plan
    • Introduction
    • Structure and Content of the Work
    • Anonymized Authorities?
    • Doing Adespota in the Age of Technology
    • When Attribution Fails
    • Limits to Interpretation and the Challenges of Attribution
    • Some Concluding Remarks
    • Fragments of Cosmogonic Content and Foundation Poems
    • P.Strasb : 481 : Hermes Founder of the Cosmos (and Hermoupolis Magna?)
    • (a, b) P.Lond : Lit : 178 = P.Oxy. II 221 : Achelous, Origin of the Sea
    • P.Oxy. XXXVII 2816 : Invocation to the Muses, Cosmogony
    • P.Berol : inv. 9564 : Aphrodite Urania and the Birth of the Cosmos
    • P.Oxy. XXX 2515 : Anger of Poseidon, Turmoil of the Elements
    • P.Vindob : G 29805 : Poseidon's Trident : the Foundation of Thasos?
    • Didactic and Technical Poetry : Astronomical and Astrological
    • P.Oxy. XV1822 : On Comets
    • P.Oxy. XX 2258 C fr. 1 ('back') marg. 29-33 : Coma Berenices
    • P.Oxy. XXX 2521 : Fabricating Constellations
    • P.Oxy. LXXXIII 5349 : The Arrival of Autumn
    • P.Ryl. Ill 488 : Astrological Poem
    • PSI III 157 : The Lot of Fortune?
    • Didactic and Technical Poetry : Other
    • P.Köln VI 244 : Viperids
    • P.Oxy. XV 1796 : The Sycamore and the Persea during the Nile Flood
    • P.Oxy. L 3536 : The Glassblower
    • P.Berol : inv. 9734.5-6, 8-10 : Hexametrical Treatise on Metre
    • Hymns
    • P.Köln I 6 : Hymn to a Universal God (Sarapis?)
    • P.Berol : inv. 9779 = P.Schubart 12.1-11 : Hymn to Sarapis
    • PSI VII 844 : Hymn to Isis
    • PSI XV1482 : Hymn to Eirene
    • P.Ross : Georg : I 11 : The Punishment of Lycurgus : Hymn to Dionysus
    • P.Oxy : IV 670 : Hera Enchained on Her Throne : Hymn to Dionysus?
    • P. Berol : inv. 21167 : (Hymn to?) Bacchus (and Persephone?)
    • P.Ryl. Ill 494 : The Return of Persephone? Hymn to Demeter
    • P.Amh. II 16 : Triptolemus : Hymn to Demeter?
    • P.Ant. II 59 : The Barren Land (Hymn to Demeter?)
    • P.Harr. I 6 : Hymn (?) to Demeter or the Mother of the Gods
    • P.Mich. Ill 139 : Hymn to Gaia or the Mother of the Gods?
    • P. Köln VI 242 : Hymn to Aphrodite : Seafaring
    • P.Lond : Lit. 37 : Hermes, Zeus (and Athena?)
    • P.Berol : inv. 5227 : Apollo Setting Foot on Delos : Hymn to Apollo?
    • P.Berol : inv. 21139 : Leto and Asteria : Hymn to Apollo?
    • Erotic Poetry : Hero and Leander
    • P.Ryl : Ill 486 : Speech of Hero
    • P.Berol : inv. 21249 : Leander at Sea
    • Erotic Poetry : Other
    • PSI XIV 1389 : The Unsuccessful Wooer
    • P.Köln II 63 : The Sorrowful Woman (Medea to Jason?)
    • PSI XV 1468 : Seduction Scene (Theseus and Ariadne?)
    • P.Ant. Ill 117 : The Malady of Love
    • Epithalamia
    • P.Lond : Lit. 38 : Apollo, Galatea
    • P.Ryl. I 17 : Wedding Card to the Bride
    • P.Hal. 2 : The Herculean Bridegroom
    • P.Oxy. Ill 423 : The Wedding of the Nile and Egypt
    • PSI VII 845 : (a) Address to the Nile, Bridegroom of Egyptian Land + (b) Hymn to the Muse, Orpheus?
    • Two Hexameter Anthologies
    • (1-5) P.Lit. Goodspeed 2
    • (1-4) P.Vindob : G 29788 A-C
    • Bibliography
    • Images and Plates
    • Digital Reproductions of Papyri Online
    • List of Plates
    • Indexes and Concordances
    • Index Papyrorum
    • Index Nominum
    • Index Verborum
    • Tables of Concordances.
    Other title(s)
    Hexameters of unknown or uncertain authorship from Graeco-Roman Egypt
    ISBN
    • 9783110295030 (v. 1 : hardbound)
    • 3110295032 (hardbound)
    OCLC
    1240363772
    International Article Number
    • 9783110295030
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