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The Oxyrhynchus Papyri volume LXXVIII
This volume includes fragments from three Christian texts, two lost classical works, prose texts and utilitarian literature.
5128 combines biblical excerpts within a larger text, perhaps a hymn. 5129 represents the first text of Justin Martyr to appear among the papyri. 5127 is a miniature parchment copy of Psalm CIX, a favourite text for amulets.
5130, an excerpt from Alcidamas, the once famous sophist and rival of Isocrates, proves that he wrote, or was thought to have written, a paradoxical ‘Praise of Poverty’. 5131 provides a central scene of Greek Tragedy, with a corpse borne onto the stage in the presence of Athamas.
5132 adds an early witness to the tradition of Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae. 5133–5147, from speeches of Isocrates, exemplify various dates, formats and levels of production. 5148–5152 contain fragments of speeches of the Demosthenic corpus rarely represented in papyri. 5153–5158 contain works from Plutarch’s Moralia.
5159 is a rare example of a metrical handbook. 5160 presents a commentary, learned and detailed notes on an Old Comedy. 5161–5163 belong to another uncommon type, glossaries for Greek-speakers learning Latin.
Documentary texts 5164–5172 date from the earliest years of Roman rule in Egypt, when the new régime set out to increase revenue. 5178 and 5179 are letters sent to officials dating to the second century. Other items touch everyday crises including the employment a wet nurse for a foundling from the dung-hill and an under-age girl working as a servant, against a loan made to her father and brothers.
Edited with translations and texts by R.-L. Chang and W. B. Henry, with contributions from M. J. Anderson, A. Benaissa, J. H. Brusuelas, L. Capponi, D. Colomo, N. Gonis, N. Karapanagioti, W. Luppe, M. Maehler and M. Malouta.
- ISBN: 978-0-85698-211-8 (hardback); 978-0-85698-071-8 (eBook)
- Series: Graeco-Roman Memoirs 99
- Published: 2012
- Size: 254 × 190 mm
- Pages: 216
Contents
Contents
Preface
Table of Papyri
List of Plates
Numbers and Plates
Note on the Method of Publication and Abbreviations
TEXTS
I. Theological Texts (5127–5129)
II. New Literary Texts (5130–5131)
III. Known Literary Texts (5132–5158)
IV. Subliterary Texts (5159–5163)
V. Documentary Texts (5164–5182)
INDEXES
I. New Literary Texts
II. Subliterary Texts
III. Rulers and Regnal Years
IV. Months and Days
V. Dates
VI. Personal Names
VII. Geographical
VIII. Religion
IX. Official and Military Terms and Titles
X. Professions, Trades, and Occupations
XI. Measures
XII. Taxes
XIII. General Index of Words
XIV. Corrections to Published Texts
PLATES
Table of Papyri
I. Theological Texts
| 5127 | LXX, Psalm XC 4–13 (Amulet) (Late fifth century) |
| 5128 | Christian Text with Biblical Excerpts (Third/fourth century) |
| 5129 | Justin Martyr, First Apology 50.12, 51.4–5 (Fourth century) |
II. New Literary Texts
| 5130 | From Alcidamas, Praise of Poverty (Third century) |
| 5131 | Tragedy (Euripides, Ino?) (Third century) |
III. KNOWN LITERARY TEXTS
| 5132 | Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 1203–9 (Second/third century) |
| 5133–5 | Isocrates, Ad Nicoclem |
| 5133 | Isocrates, Ad Nicoclem 4–5 (Third/fourth century) |
| 5134 | Isocrates, Ad Nicoclem 39–41 (Early third century) |
| 5135 | Isocrates, Ad Nicoclem 48–9, 51–2 (Third century) |
| 5136–9 | Isocrates, Nicocles |
| 5136 | Isocrates, Nicocles 1–2 (Second/third century) |
| 5137 | Isocrates, Nicocles 55, 57 (Sixth century) |
| 5138 | Isocrates, Nicocles 59–60 (Fourth century) |
| 5139 | Isocrates, Nicocles 59–61 (Second/third century) |
| 5140–43 | Isocrates, De Pace |
| 5140 | Isocrates, De Pace 13–14, 16, 22–3, etc. (Second century) |
| 5141 | Isocrates, De Pace 38–9 (Second/third century) |
| 5142 | Isocrates, De Pace 127, 130 (Fourth century) |
| 5143 | Isocrates, De Pace 127–8 (First cent. BC/first cent. AD) |
| 5144–6 | Isocrates, Philippus |
| 5144 | Isocrates, Philippus 70–77, 79–80, 101–5 (Fourth century) |
| 5145 | Isocrates, Philippus 117–19, 121–3, 126–7 (Second century) |
| 5146 | Isocrates, Philippus 120, 123–4 (Fourth century) |
| 5147 | Isocrates, Antidosis 2–4 (Second century) |
| 5148–52 | Demosthenes |
| 5148–50 | [Demosthenes] XXV |
| 5148 | [Demosthenes] XXV 6–8, 10–11 (First cent. BC/first cent. AD) |
| 5149 | [Demosthenes] XXV 26, 31–2 (Fifth century) |
| 5150 | [Demosthenes] XXV 50–51, 68–71 (First century) |
| 5151 | Demosthenes XXX 39 (Second century) |
| 5152 | [Demosthenes] XXXIV 49–end (Second/third century) |
| 5153–8 | Plutarch, Moralia |
| 5153 | Plutarch, Moralia 75A–C (Second century) |
| 5154 | Plutarch, Moralia 139E–140D (Third century) |
| 5155 | Plutarch, Moralia 191E–F (Third/fourth century) |
| 5156 | Plutarch, Moralia 660C, 661B–C (Second century) |
| 5157 | Plutarch, Moralia 732E–F (Second century) |
| 5158 | Plutarch, Moralia 963D (Third century) |
IV. Subliterary Texts
| 5159 | Chapter on Tetrasyllabic Feet (Third century) |
| 5160 | Commentary on Eupolis’ Goats (?) (Second/third century) |
| 5161–3 | Graeco-Latin Glossaries |
| 5161 | Graeco-Latin Alphabetical Glossary of Conjugated Verbs (Third/fourth century) |
| 5162 | Graeco-Latin Thematic Glossary (First/second century) |
| 5163 | Graeco-Latin Thematic Glossary (First/second century) |
V. Documentary Texts
| 5164 | Receipt for Delivery of Oil (30 July 26 or 31 Jan. 25 BC?) |
| 5165 | Order to a Banker (27 Jan. 24 BC) |
| 5166 | Instruction to Receive Tax on Sale of Slave (c.20s BC) |
| 5167 | Receipt for Pig-Tax (12 March 20 BC) |
| 5168–70 | Collection of Documents |
| 5168 | Wet-Nurse Contract (10 Oct. 18(?) BC) |
| 5169 | Repayment of Loan (10 Oct. 18 BC) |
| 5170 | Notice to an Agoranomus (Late first century BC) |
| 5171 | Report from a Topogrammateus (6 BC) |
| 5172 | Receipt for Dike-Tax (30 July 7) |
| 5173 | Loan of Money (29 Aug. 25 – 3 Feb. 26) |
| 5174 | Letter to Apelles, Strategus (28 Oct. – 26 Nov. 26) |
| 5175 | Petition to the Prefect (c.49) |
| 5176 | Notice to an Agoranomus (23 June 52) |
| 5177 | Letter of Diogenes, Strategus, to Heraclides (27 Nov. – 26 Dec. 132) |
| 5178 | Letter of Heraclides to Claudius Diogenes, Strategus (Early second century) |
| 5179 | Letter to Attius (Second century) |
| 5180 | Letter to Isidorus and Tyrannus (Second/third century) |
| 5181 | Foot of Private Letter (Third century) |
| 5182 | Letter of Chenthonis to Petosiris (Early fourth century) |
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