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Homer Multitext Components: Project Components

Project Components The Homer Multitext currently publishes images of five of the oldest Medieval manuscripts of the Iliad with scholia and a growing library of editions of Homeric papyri, as well as links to Multitext related scholarship. Please visit http://www.homermultitext.org in order to access all data and the latest information about the project.  The following Multitext-related resources have also been developed with the collaboration of the Stoa Consortium: Domenico Comparetti, … Read more

Homer & the Papyri: Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements The editors of Homer and the Papyri would like to thank the following people for their contributions: Isabella Andorlini Thomas Kruse John Lundon Cecilia Saerens Giuseppe Ucciardello Martin West Acknowledgements From Previous Edition Professor Dana Sutton would like to thank the following for supplying him with various forms of information, advice, and assistance: Dr. Graeme D. Bird (thanks for all the proofreading help) Professor Theodore F. Brunner Professor Traianos… Read more

Homer & the Papyri: Comparatio Numerorum

Comparatio Numerorum  Iliad Papyri p1-p704a are identical to the papyrus listings in M. L. West’s 1998-2000 Teubner edition of the Iliad. The following is a comparison of the numbers assigned by the editors of Homer and the Papyri from p705 onwards (as each fragment is published) with those assigned by Dr. West in chapter four of his forthcoming Studies in the Text and Transmission of the Iliad (Munich/Leipzig). Dr.West has… Read more

Homer & the Papyri: Abbreviations

Abbreviations A. C.: Antiquité Classique A. J. P. : The American Journal of Philology Ann. Serv.: Annales du Service des Antiquités de l’ Égypte An. Pap.: Analecta Papyrologica A. P. F. : Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete Arch. Bib.: Archiv für Bibliographie Årsb.: Humanistika Vetenskapssamfundet i Lund: Års berattelse A. S. N. P.: Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa B. A. Read more

Homer & the Papyri: Introduction

An Introduction to Homer and the Papyri by Casey Dué The Homeric papyri are, with the exception of a few ancient quotations, the oldest surviving witnesses to the text of Homer. These papyrus documents are all fragmentary, and range in date from as early as the third century BCE to the seventh century CE. The vast majority of the fragments were discovered in Egypt, and now reside in collections located… Read more

German: Oionoskopika

Posidippus, Epigrams, Pap. Mil. Vogl. VIII 309 Oionoskopika AB 21 (IV 8-13) Wenn ein Schiff zu Wasser gelassen wird, zeige sich die ganze Fahrt über kraftvoll       ein Falke; eine Möwe ist kein richtiges Vogelzeichen. Ein in die Tiefe tauchender Vogel ist ungünstig, vielmehr soll er hoch fliegen      *** gänzlich. So wie sich von einer Ionischen Eiche der schnellflügelige Falke erhob,      als,… Read more

French: Lithika

Posidippus, Epigrams, Pap. Mil. Vogl. VIII 309 Lithika AB 1 L’Indien Hydaspès      … …      […] la délicate Zèn[ Traduction par Yannick Durbec AB 2 […] repose une corne …      […] par Cronios marchant (?) … […] verser du vin …      […] de la profondeur Ind[ Traduction par Yannick Durbec AB 3 Ce […] resplendissant, dans lequel une… Read more

German: Lithika

Posidippus, Epigrams, Pap. Mil. Vogl. VIII 309 Lithika AB 20 Wie einmal Du die ganze Helike mit ihren Felsenspitzen      durch eine einzige Welle an den Sand erleuchtetest, so würdest Du auch Eleusis schlagen, ähnlich einem hundertfacher Hurrikan,      sofern Demeter Deine Hand nicht küssen würde. Nur jetzt Du Herrgott von Geraistos, bewahr das Land von Ptolemaios      mit seinen Küsten und Eilanden unerschüttert! Übersetzung… Read more

English: New, Unidentified

Posidippus, Epigrams, Pap. Mil. Vogl. VIII 309 New, Unidentified AB 110 (XVI 19-22)      Spring the Zephyr … …      … to shrink from (?) and … Translated by E. Kosmetatou AB 111 (XVI 23-26) Everything …      … …      … Translated by E. Kosmetato… Read more