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Multitextuality in the Homeric Iliad: The Witness of Ptolemaic Papyri

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Graeme D. Bird examines a small group of early papyrus manuscripts of Homer's Iliad, known as the Ptolemaic papyri, which, although fragmentary, are the oldest surviving physical evidence of the text of the Iliad, dating from the third to the first centuries BCE. These papyri have been described as "eccentric" or even "wild" by some scholars. They differ significantly from the usual text of the Iliad, sometimes showing lines with different wording, at other times including so-called "interpolated" lines that are completely ...

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Multitextuality in the Homeric Iliad: The Witness of Ptolemaic Papyri 2010, Harvard University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780674053236

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

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