Our Boys Lost in Fragments. Three New Texts of Greek Literature
5:00pm - 6:30pm /
Tuesday 28th March 2017
/ Venue: Seminar Room 4 Rendall Building
- Alexei Zadorozhny
- Suitable for: Anybody interested in the topic, including university staff and students and member of the public.
- Admission: Admission is free, please contact Alexei Zadorozhny to register: avzadoro@liverpool.ac.uk
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This paper will present the preliminary results of research on P.Oxy. inv. 112/54, a still unpublished first-century papyrus discovered in the city of Oxyrhynchus (Egypt) more than a century ago.
The papyrus contains an anthology of three Greek thrênoi, lyric laments over the loss of young soldiers died on the battlefield. The newly-recovered text of these poems, which show an unparalleled metrical structure, does not match the text of any extant Greek literary text, but onomastics and dialect point to a poem by an Ionian author of great renown, possibly a composition commissioned by the Milesian aristocracy in the pre- or early Classical age.
This paper will discuss issues of language, metrics, content and attribution, illustrating the methodology behind working with fragments and the procedures used by papyrologists in deciphering unknown material.
Speaker:Dr Marco Perale (University of Liverpool)
The papyrus contains an anthology of three Greek thrênoi, lyric laments over the loss of young soldiers died on the battlefield. The newly-recovered text of these poems, which show an unparalleled metrical structure, does not match the text of any extant Greek literary text, but onomastics and dialect point to a poem by an Ionian author of great renown, possibly a composition commissioned by the Milesian aristocracy in the pre- or early Classical age.
This paper will discuss issues of language, metrics, content and attribution, illustrating the methodology behind working with fragments and the procedures used by papyrologists in deciphering unknown material.
Speaker:Dr Marco Perale (University of Liverpool)