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A Companion to Ancient Epigram
A delightful look at the epic literary history of the short, poetic genre of the epigram From Nestor’s inscribed cup to tombstones, bathroom walls, and Twitter tweets, the ability to express oneself concisely and elegantly, continues to be an important part of literary history unlike any other. This book examines the entire history of the epigram, from its beginnings as a purely epigraphic phenomenon in the Greek world, where it moved from being just a note attached to physical objects to an actual literary form of expression, to its zenith in late 1st century Rome, and further through a period of stagnation up to its last blooming, just before the beginning of the Dark Ages. A Companion t...
The Emergence of Multiple-Text Manuscripts
The universal practice of selecting and excerpting, summarizing and canonizing, arranging and organizing texts and visual signs, either in carefully dedicated types of manuscripts or not, is common to all manuscript cultures. Determined by intellectual or practical needs, this process is never neutral in itself. The resulting proximity and juxtaposition of previously distant contents, challenge previous knowledge and trigger further developments. With a vast selection of highly representative case studies – from India, Islamic Asia and Spain to Ethiopian cultures, from Ancient Christian to Coptic, and Medieval European domains – this volume deals with manuscripts planned or growing and resulting in time to comprise ‘more than one’. Whatever their contents – the natural world and related recipes, astronomical tables or personal notes, documentary, religious and even highly revered holy texts – codicological and textual features of these manuscripts reveal how similar needs received different answers in varying contexts and times.
Tied and Bound: A Comparative View on Manuscript Binding
The present volume contains twelve chapters authored by specialists of Asian, African and European manuscript cultures reflecting on the cohesion of written artefacts, particularly manuscripts. Assuming that ‘codicological units’ exist in every manuscript culture and that they are usually composed of discrete elements (such as clay tablets, papyrus sheets, bamboo slips, parchment bifolios, palm leaves), the issue of the cohesion of the constituents is a general one. The volume presents a series of case studies on devices and strategies adopted to achieve this cohesion by manuscript cultures distant in space (from China to West Africa) and time (from the third millennium bce to the presen...
Arsinoe 3D
Il volume illustra il lavoro di ricostruzione della missione di scavo condotta dall’Istituto Papirologico «G. Vitelli» nell’inverno fra il 1964 e il 1965 sul sito di Arsinoe, antico capoluogo del distretto del Fayyum. Materiali d’archivio, reperti e papiri fanno luce sia sulle attività sul campo e sull’architettura del settore indagato, sia su alcuni aspetti della vita quotidiana nell’Egitto di età tolemaica e romana. La documentazione d’archivio è stata poi utilizzata per rendere nuovamente ‘visitabile’ – attraverso modelli 3D, digital storytelling e realtà aumentata – un sito archeologico per sempre scomparso a causa dell’incedere dell’urbanizzazione contemporanea.
Greek Culture in Hellenistic Egypt
This book investigates some aspects of the cultural consequences of the settlement of Greeks in Egypt during the Hellenistic period, through a discussion of papyrological material, archaeological evidence, and literary sources. It is divided into three sections. The first, Space and Images, reflects on the evolutions and changes in iconography, spatial organization, and landscape. The second, Ethnic Interactions, offers new hints on the long debated topic of ethnicity, relying on a wide range of Greek and Demotic sources. The third, The Literary Experience, shifts the attention from documents to literature, examining the circulation of Greek texts and books in Egypt from different perspectives. Mixing case studies and overviews, the volume offers an updated, multifaceted representation of complex phaenomena which can be understood only going beyond disciplinary boundaries.
More than Homer Knew – Studies on Homer and His Ancient Commentators
This book contains a collection of twenty-one essays in honour of Professor Franco Montanari by eminent specialists on Homer, ancient Homeric scholarship, and the reception of the Homeric Epics in both ancient and modern times. It covers a wide range of important subjects, including neoanalysis and oral poetry, the Doloneia, the Homeric scholia, the theoretical premises of Aristarchean scholarship, and Homer in Sappho, Pindar, Comedy, Plato, and Hellenistic Poetry. As a whole, the contributions demonstrate the vitality of modern scholarship on Homeric poetry.
Novel Perspectives on Communication Practices in Antiquity
Documents such as papyri and inscriptions are essential to our knowledge of ancient history in a broad sense. This volume turns the attention to the texts themselves, and explores in an interdisciplinary way how people communicated with each other in antiquity.
La lingua delle petizioni nell’Egitto romano
Il volume prende in esame gli aspetti linguistici e formali di più di mille domande di giustizia e tutela conservate dai papiri egiziani dell’epoca del principato, prevalentemente scritte in greco. Per molti secoli in Egitto, dall’epoca tolemaica fino al tardo impero romano, le petizioni indirizzate alle autorità giudiziarie impiegano una stessa struttura testuale ed espressioni ricorrenti: tale uniformità era risultato dell’uso di repertori condivisi da parte di scribi e consulenti legali. Questo studio valuta analiticamente quali corrispondenze il lessico e le formule dei documenti avevano con legislazione, convenzioni normative, lingua parlata e letteraria, e in quale modo questi fattori interagirono tra loro attraverso i secoli.
Lucerne da Antinoupolis
Il volume verte sullo studio di 567 lucerne, provenienti dagli scavi della Necropoli Nord di Antinoupolis condotti negli anni 1965 e 1966 dall’Istituto Papirologico “G. Vitelli”, Firenze. Le lucerne esaminate (per lo più in ottimo stato di conservazione) costituiscono una delle più numerose collezioni di tale classe ceramica e si collocano tra il V ed il VII secolo d.C. Gli esemplari analizzati, per i quali si propone una diversificazione tipologica su base decorativa, sono per lo più prodotti localmente, mentre i restanti sono di importazione (in modo prevalente da altri centri dell’Egitto). Pur condizionato dalla scarsità di dati a disposizione, lo studio di questa collezione costituisce pertanto una base di rilievo per il riscontro dei commerci attivi ad Antinoupolis in epoca pre-islamica.
