Adespota Papyracea Hexametra Graeca (APHEX) : : Hexameters of Unknown or Uncertain Authorship from Graeco-Roman Egypt. / Volume I, : APHex I / / Marco Perale.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
• VerfasserIn: Perale, Marco,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Sozomena : Studies in the Recovery of Ancient Texts , 18
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XXXII, 542 p.)

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 "es 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).

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 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 -- 01. P.Strasb. 481. Hermes Founder of the Cosmos (and Hermoupolis Magna?) -- 02. (a, b) P.Lond. Lit. 178 = P.Oxy. 221. Achelous, Origin of the Sea -- 03. P.Oxy. XXXVII 2816. Invocation to the Muses/Cosmogony -- 04. P.Berol. inv. 9564. Aphrodite Urania and the Birth of the Cosmos -- 05. P.Oxy. XXX 2515. Anger of Poseidon, Turmoil of the Elements -- 06. P.Vindob. G 29805. Poseidon’s Trident: the Foundation of Thasos? -- Didactic and Technical Poetry: Astronomical and Astrological -- 07. SP.Oxy. XV 1822. On Comets -- 08. P.Oxy. XX 2258. C fr. 1 (‘back’) marg. 29-33. Coma Berenices -- 09. P.Oxy. XXX 2521. Fabricating Constellations -- 10. P.Oxy. LXXXIII 5349. The Arrival of Autumn -- 11. P.Ryl. III 488. Astrological Poem -- 12. PSI III 157. The Lot of Fortune? -- Didactic and Technical Poetry: Other -- 13. VP.Köln VI 244. Viperids -- 14. P.Oxy. XV 1796. The Sycamore and the Persea during the Nile Flood -- 15. P.Oxy. L 3536. The Glassblower -- 16. P.Berol. inv. 9734.5-6, 8-10 = BKTV2, pp.140-2. Hexametrical Treatise on Metre -- Hymns -- 17. P.Köln I 6. Hymn to a Universal God (Sarapis?) -- 18. P.Berol. inv. 9779 = P.Schubart 12.1-11. Hymn to Sarapis -- 19. PSI VII 844. Hymn to Isis -- 20. PSI XV 1482. Hymn to Eirene -- 21. P.Ross. Georg. I 11. The Punishment of Lycurgus: Hymn to Dionysus -- 22. P.Oxy. IV 670. Hera Enchained on Her Throne: Hymn to Dionysus? -- 23. P. Berol. inv. 21167 = BKTIX 70. (Hymn to?) Bacchus (and Persephone?) -- 24. P.Ryl. III 494. The Return of Persephone? Hymn to Demeter -- 25. P.Amh. II 16. Triptolemus: Hymn to Demeter? -- 26. P.Ant. II 59. The Barren Land (Hymn to Demeter?) -- 27. P.Harr. I 6. Hymn (?) to Demeter or the Mother of the Gods -- 28. P.Mich. III 139. Hymn to Gaia or the Mother of the Gods? -- 29. P. Köln VI 242. Hymn to Aphrodite. Seafaring -- 30. P.Lond. Lit. 37. Hermes, Zeus (and Athena?) -- 31. P.Berol. inv. 5227 = BKTV2, p147(b). Apollo Setting Foot on Delos: Hymn to Apollo? -- 32. P.Berol. inv. 21139 = BKTIX 40. Leto and Asteria: Hymn to Apollo? -- Erotic Poetry: Hero and Leander -- 33. P.Ryl. III 486. Speech of Hero -- 34. P.Berol. inv. 21249 = BKTIX153. Leander at Sea -- Erotic Poetry: Other -- 35. PSI XIV 1389. The Unsuccessful Wooer -- 36. P.Köln II 63. The Sorrowful Woman (Medea to Jason?) -- 37. PSI XV 1468. Seduction Scene (Theseus and Ariadne?) -- 38. P.Ant. III 117. The Malady of Love -- Epithalamia -- 39. P.Lond.Lit. 38. Apollo, Galatea -- 40. P.Ryl. I 17. Wedding Card to the Bride -- 41. P.Hal. 2. The Herculean Bridegroom -- 42. P.Oxy. III 423. The Wedding of the Nile and Egypt -- 43. PSI VII 845. (a) Address to the Nile, Bridegroom of Egyptian Land + (b) Hymn to the Muse/Orpheus? -- Two Hexameter Anthologies -- 44. P.Lit. Goodspeed 2 -- 45. 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