Iliad p609 (Mertens-Pack 864.1; P. Mich. 6972) Text based on the edition of Alexander Loney, after the edition of A. Edwards (1984) [1] This papyrus roll dates to the second century BCE and is a palimpsest, meaning that the papyrus had been written on and erased before these verses were written on it. The earliest of the texts of Iliad 10… Read more
Iliad 10: A Multitextual Approach This volume takes a multitextual approach in its presentation of the transmitted texts of Iliad 10. We want to avoid presenting a critical text that obscures the multiformity of the oral tradition or is misleading about the historical realities about the textual transmission. For that reason we have chosen to include four separate witnesses that illustrate the text of part or all… Read more
Tradition and Reception: Rhesos, Dolon, and the Doloneia In this essay, we pair two concepts for investigation: the traditionality of the characters of Rhesos and Dolon and the reception of these characters and the story of the Doloneia in later works. Both concepts involve exploring what we know about these characters, the story of the Doloneia, and ambush in general from outside of Iliad 10. We start… Read more
The Poetics of Ambush The phrase “poetics of ambush” encapsulates our approach and our goals for this volume, so let us begin here by defining what we mean by it. When we speak of “poetics” we mean that we are proposing a theory of the structure and functioning of the traditional language within which Iliad 10, as well as several other episodes within the epic tradition, was… Read more
Interpreting Iliad 10: Assumptions, Methodology, and the Place of the Doloneia within the History of Homeric Scholarship [In this on-line version, the page-numbers of the printed version are indicated within braces (“{” and “}”). For example, “{69|70}” indicates where p. 69 of the printed version ends and p. 70 begins. These indications will be useful to readers who need to look up references made elsewhere to the… Read more
Acknowledgments We gratefully acknowledge the support provided by a National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research grant, which funded in large part the research and writing of this book. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. We are also profoundly grateful for the support of several individuals who contributed to the project… Read more
Online edition of Hellenic Studies 43, originally published in 2010 by the Center for Hellenic Studies. Copyright, Center for Hellenic Studies. A print version is available for purchase via Harvard University Press here. Read more
Chapter 3: The Ptolemaic Papyri of the Iliad: Evidence of Eccentricity or Multitextuality? Until the end of the nineteenth century, the text of Homer, as preserved in papyri and medieval manuscripts, was relatively uniform, with few significant variant readings to exercise scholars. True, there were instances where an ancient author such as Plato or Aeschines had quoted a passage of Homer in a way that differed in… Read more
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