Greek Readers' Digests?: Studies on a Selection of Subliterary Papyri

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This volume discusses Greek subliterary papyri containing mythical catalogues, stories of the Mythographus Homericus, and summaries of Iliad, Odyssey tragedies, comedies, and poems of Callimachus. The first part of the book explores the following questions: what kind of knowledge is transmitted in the papyri and how is this done? How is the knowledge related to that found in other literature? What do we know about the function and readership of these papyri? Although comparable questions have been asked before regarding some papyri, this study attempts to present a more precise and comprehensive picture based on a systematic examination of all the relevant papyri. The second part contains all the papyrus texts discussed in the first part, thereby offering a convenient aid to the reader and a useful instrument for future research. GREEK READERS' DIGESTS?: STUDIES ON A SELECTION OF SUBLITERARY PAPYRI CONTENTS Acknowledgements Note on abbreviations PART ONE Introduction Chapter One: Hypotheses to tragedies and comedies 1 Narrative hypotheses 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Characteristics 1.3 Papyri 1.4 Comparative survey of papyri 1-18 1.5 Origin and transmission 1.6 Connection with Ps.-Apollodorus and Ps.-Hyginus 1.7 Function and readership 2 Learned hypotheses 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Papyri 2.3 Function and readership 3 Descriptive hypothesis 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Papyrus 3.3 Function and readership 4 Menandrean hypotheses 4.1.1 Introduction to prose hypotheses 4.1.2 Introduction to metrical hypotheses 4.2 Papyri 4.3 Function and readership 5 Comparative survey of papyri 19-28 6 Doubtful papyri 7 Conclusions Chapter Two: Homeric hypotheses and callimachean diegeses 1 Homeric hypotheses 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Papyri 1.3 Comparative survey of papyri 1.4 Hypotheses in the medieval manuscripts 1.5 More Homeric summaries 1.6 Function and readership 2 Callimachean diegeses 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Papyri 2.3 Comparative survey of papyri 2.4 Function and readership 3 Conclusions Chapter Three: Mythographus homericus 1 Introduction 2 Characteristics 3 Papyri 4 Comparative survey of papyri 5 Connections between papyri, scholia and Ps.-Apollodorus 5.1 Comparison scholia - papyri 5.2 Scholia and Ps.-Apollodorus 6 Subscriptions 7 Origin 8 Date 9 Conclusions Chapter Four: Catalogues 1 Introduction 2 Papyri 3 Comparative survey of papyri 3.1 Provenance, date, hand, lectional signs, layout 3.2 Contents 4 Comparison with Ps.-Hyginus' Fabulae 5 Conclusions Conclusions Appendix One: Notes on three mythographic writings 1 Ps.-Apollodorus' Bibliotheca 2 Ps.-Hyginus' Fabulae 3 Panhenius' Περὶ ἐρωτικὠν παθημάτὠν Appendix Two: Tabula Iliaca Capitolina and Apd. Epit. 4, 3-7 PART TWO Note on the texts Papyri Bibliography Indices Index of papyri Index of passages Index of names and subjects