Greek Readers' Digests?: Studies on a Selection of Subliterary Papyri (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava. Supplementum, 175)

This volume discusses Greek subliterary papyri containing mythical catalogues, stories of the Mythographus Homericus, and summaries of Iliad, Odyssey tragedies, comedies, and poems of Callimachus. The first part of the book explores the following questions: what kind of knowledge is transmitted in the papyri and how is this done? How is the knowledge related to that found in other literature? What do we know about the function and readership of these papyri? Although comparable questions have been asked before regarding some papyri, this study attempts to present a more precise and comprehensive picture based on a systematic examination of all the relevant papyri. The second part contains all the papyrus texts discussed in the first part, thereby offering a convenient aid to the reader and a useful instrument for future research. GREEK READERS' DIGESTS?: STUDIES ON A SELECTION OF SUBLITERARY PAPYRI 3 CONTENTS 5 Acknowledgements 9 Note on abbreviations 11 PART ONE 13 Introduction 13 Chapter One: Hypotheses to tragedies and comedies 21 1 Narrative hypotheses 21 1.1 Introduction 21 1.2 Characteristics 24 1.3 Papyri 32 1.4 Comparative survey of papyri 1-18 42 1.5 Origin and transmission 44 1.6 Connection with Ps.-Apollodorus and Ps.-Hyginus 45 1.7 Function and readership 51 2 Learned hypotheses 52 2.1 Introduction 52 2.2 Papyri 54 2.3 Function and readership 56 3 Descriptive hypothesis 57 3.1 Introduction 57 3.2 Papyrus 57 3.3 Function and readership 59 4 Menandrean hypotheses 59 4.1.1 Introduction to prose hypotheses 59 4.1.2 Introduction to metrical hypotheses 60 4.2 Papyri 61 4.3 Function and readership 64 5 Comparative survey of papyri 19-28 65 6 Doubtful papyri 66 7 Conclusions 67 Chapter Two: Homeric hypotheses and callimachean diegeses 73 1 Homeric hypotheses 73 1.1 Introduction 73 1.2 Papyri 75 1.3 Comparative survey of papyri 85 1.4 Hypotheses in the medieval manuscripts 87 1.5 More Homeric summaries 89 1.6 Function and readership 93 2 Callimachean diegeses 94 2.1 Introduction 94 2.2 Papyri 95 2.3 Comparative survey of papyri 100 2.4 Function and readership 101 3 Conclusions 101 Chapter Three: Mythographus homericus 105 1 Introduction 105 2 Characteristics 106 3 Papyri 112 4 Comparative survey of papyri 121 5 Connections between papyri, scholia and Ps.-Apollodorus 123 5.1 Comparison scholia - papyri 123 5.2 Scholia and Ps.-Apollodorus 128 6 Subscriptions 131 7 Origin 133 8 Date 135 9 Conclusions 136 Chapter Four: Catalogues 139 1 Introduction 139 2 Papyri 141 3 Comparative survey of papyri 168 3.1 Provenance, date, hand, lectional signs, layout 168 3.2 Contents 170 4 Comparison with Ps.-Hyginus' Fabulae 171 5 Conclusions 174 Conclusions 177 Appendix One: Notes on three mythographic writings 184 1 Ps.-Apollodorus' Bibliotheca 184 2 Ps.-Hyginus' Fabulae 189 3 Panhenius' Περὶ ἐρωτικὠν παθημάτὠν 192 Appendix Two: Tabula Iliaca Capitolina and Apd. Epit. 4, 3-7 196 PART TWO 201 Note on the texts 203 Papyri 205 Bibliography 361 Indices 369 Index of papyri 369 Index of passages 371 Index of names and subjects 374 This book discusses the contents, function and readership of Greek papyri containing mythical catalogues, stories of the Mythographus Homericus, and summaries of Iliad, Odyssey, tragedies, comedies, and poems of Callimachus. All the papyrus texts discussed are included.