Adespota Papyracea Hexametra Graeca (APHex I): Hexameters of Unknown or Uncertain Authorship from Graeco-Roman Egypt (Sozomena)

Adespota Papyracea Hexametra Graeca provides a comprehensive corpus of 'anonymous' hexameter texts on papyri, parchments, ostraca and tablets that have appeared in the current and past two centuries. The project has three main objectives: i) to retrieve and determine how many and what type of unidentified hexameter poems reached us via Egyptian papyri; ii) to restore a readable and reliable text for these poems, providing straightforward access to material that has been hard-to-reach in print format, is still unavailable online, or has not been previously translated into English or any other modern language; iii) to discuss, insofar as the fragmentary state of the evidence allows, issues of style, metre, and attribution. Overall, it aspires to serve as a fresh and solid starting-point for future assessment of Greek poetry in Egypt from the Archaic period to Late Antiquity. This first volume of papyrus adespota contains: i) a catalogue of hexameter adespota, and ii) critical editions with English translation and commentary of: cosmologies and foundation poems (no. 01-06), astronomical and astrological texts (07-12), didactic and technical poetry (13-16), hymns (17-32), fragments of erotic content (33-38); epithalamia (39-43); and two hexameter anthologies, the Goodspeed papyrus (44) and the so-called Pamprepius codex (45). Future volumes will contain: Encomia and Lamentations (46-67); Bucolic (68-71), and Epic poetry (72-144); assemblages of Homeric verses (145-154); magical verses (155-166); oracles (167-169); fragments of uncertain genre or content (170-204); hexameter quotes from grammatical papyri and ancient commentaries (205-216); παίγνια (217-219); gnomic hexameters (220-221); pangrams (222-235); texts copied or produced within a school context (236-242). The Volume Consists Of A Comprehensive Catalogue Of Hexametric Adespota Texts Transmitted On Papyri. Each Entry Contains: Publication Name; Indication Of Content; Correspondences With The Online Catalogues Mertens-pack3 And Leuven Database Of Ancient Books; Date, Provenance And Current Location; Previous Editions Available; Previously Suggested Attributions; Updated Bibliography. The Book Also Incorporates Re-editions With Translation And Commentary Of A Selection Of Anonymous Hexameter Papyri, Including New Readings And Textual Conjectures Significantly Advancing Our Understanding Of A Large Variety Of Texts Ranging From Epic To Astronomical Poems. Adespota Papyracea Hexametra Graeca Updates And Integrates Previous Collections Of Unattributed Hexameter Texts Such As The Hexametric Sylloge In Lloyd-jones And Parsons' Supplementum Hellenisticum (nos. 901-956) And The Recent Catalogue In Miguelez-cavero's Poems In Context (nos.1.-33). Preface Contents Abbreviations Publication Plan Introduction Fragments of Cosmogonic Content and Foundation Poems Didactic and Technical Poetry: Astronomical and Astrological Didactic and Technical Poetry: Other Hymns Erotic Poetry: Hero and Leander Erotic Poetry: Other Epithalamia Two Hexameter Anthologies Bibliography Digital Reproductions of Papyri online List of Plates Index Papyrorum Index nominum Index verborum Tables of Concordances