Studies on ›P. Oxy.‹ XXXI 2537
Studies on ›P. Oxy.‹ XXXI 2537

Author: Linda Rocchi

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2020-11-09

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 311070370X

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Among the very few papyri devoted to the work of the Attic orator Lysias, one of the most interesting is certainly P. Oxy. XXXI 2537. Dated palaeographically to the late 2nd-early 3rd century CE, it contains the summaries of 22 Lysianic speeches, 18 of which were formerly unknown or known just by the title and brief quotations in lexicographers. And yet, despite the undeniable richness of this collection, the papyrus has generally received little attention from modern scholarship, and no complete survey of its many aspects of significance has been yet produced. This work aims to fill this gap: along with a new transcription and critical edition based on autopsy of the papyrus, this book provides a translation and the first exhaustive commentary of the text. Through careful textual and juridical analysis, the author examines both the relationship between summaries and speeches, with a discussion of the significant legal features of each procedure, and the overall importance of this papyrus for the history of the corpus of Lysias. The book will thus be of interest for papyrologists, legal historians, students of Attic oratory, and researchers in the field of the history of the material culture of Graeco-Roman Egypt alike.

Defining Authorship, Debating Authenticity
Defining Authorship, Debating Authenticity

Author: Roberta Berardi

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2020-10-26

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 3110684624

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This volume explores the themes of authorship and authenticity – and connected issues – from the Classical Antiquity to the Renaissance. Its reflection is constructed within a threefold framework. A first section includes topics dealing with dubious or uncertain attribution of ancient works, homonymous writers, and problems regarding the reliability of compilation literature. The middle section goes through several issues concerning authorship: the balance between the author’s contribution to their own work and the role of collaborators, pupils, circles, reviewers, scribes, and even older sources, but also the influence of different compositional stages on the concept of ‘author’, and the challenges presented by anonymous texts. Finally, a third crucial section on authenticity and forgeries concludes the book: it contains contributions dealing with spurious works – or sections of works – , mechanisms of interpolation, misattribution, and deliberate forgery. The aim of the book is therefore to exemplify the many nuances of the complex problems of authenticity and authorship of ancient texts.

Citizenship in Antiquity
Citizenship in Antiquity

Author: Jakub Filonik

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-06-30

Total Pages: 976

ISBN-13: 1000847837

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Citizenship in Antiquity brings together scholars working on the multifaceted and changing dimensions of citizenship in the ancient Mediterranean, from the second millennium BCE to the first millennium CE, adopting a multidisciplinary and comparative perspective. The chapters in this volume cover numerous periods and regions – from the Ancient Near East, through the Greek and Hellenistic worlds and pre-Roman North Africa, to the Roman Empire and its continuations, and with excursuses to modernity. The contributors to this book adopt various contemporary theories, demonstrating the manifold meanings and ways of defining the concept and practices of citizenship and belonging in ancient societies and, in turn, of non-citizenship and non-belonging. Whether citizenship was defined by territorial belonging or blood descent, by privileged or exclusive access to resources or participation in communal decision-making, or by a sense of group belonging, such identifications were also open to discursive redefinitions and manipulation. Citizenship and belonging, as well as non-citizenship and non-belonging, had many shades and degrees; citizenship could be bought or faked, or even removed. By casting light on different areas of the Mediterranean over the course of antiquity, the volume seeks to explore this multi-layered notion of citizenship and contribute to an ongoing and relevant discourse. Citizenship in Antiquity offers a wide-ranging, comprehensive collection suitable for students and scholars of citizenship, politics, and society in the ancient Mediterranean world, as well as those working on citizenship throughout history interested in taking a comparative approach.

The Cambridge Companion to Xenophon
The Cambridge Companion to Xenophon

Author: Michael A. Flower

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 545

ISBN-13: 1107050065

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Introduces Xenophon's writings and their importance for Western culture, while explaining the main scholarly controversies.

Nos. 4705-4758
Nos. 4705-4758

Author: Bernard Pyne Grenfell

Publisher: Egypt Exploration Society

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13:

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The latest volume in this ongoing series publishing the papyri from Oxyrhynchus (present day el-Bahnasa, a hundred miles south west of Cairo) contains fifty-four texts ranging from the second to the sixth century AD. There are thirty-one literary texts, of which seven are new (one of elegiacs by Archilochus, a fragment of a Doric lyric, a Hellenistic elegy on metamorphoses, a text with musical notation, three hexameter texts in epic tradition including a new Argonautica poem); two papyri of Lysias; one papyrus of Lucian and twenty-one of Isocrates; six of Ad Nicoclem; three of Nicocles and twelve of De Pace; three theological texts (Hermas. Pastor); twenty documentary texts (four land leases, five customs receipts, six sales of animals, and five texts relating to ennobled landowners in late Byzantine Oxyrhynchus).

Greene's Protective Groups in Organic Synthesis
Greene's Protective Groups in Organic Synthesis

Author: Peter G. M. Wuts

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2012-12-20

Total Pages: 1108

ISBN-13: 1118589327

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The Fourth Edition of Greene's Protective Groups in Organic Synthesis continues to be an indispensable reference for controlling the reactivity of the most common functional groups during a synthetic sequence. This new edition incorporates the significant developments in the field since publication of the third edition in 1998, including... New protective groups such as the fluorous family and the uniquely removable 2-methoxybenzenesulfonyl group for the protection of amines New techniques for the formation and cleavage of existing protective groups, with examples to illustrate each new technique Expanded coverage of the unexpected side reactions that occur with protective groups New chart covering the selective deprotection of silyl ethers 3,100 new references from the professional literature The content is organized around the functional group to be protected, and ranges from the simplest to the most complex and highly specialized protective groups.

The Athenian Grain-tax Law of 374/3 B.C.
The Athenian Grain-tax Law of 374/3 B.C.

Author: Ronald S. Stroud

Publisher: Amer School of Classical

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 9780876615294

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Transcription and translation, with an extensive commentary, of the long and well-preserved Athenian law that was found inscribed on a marble stele during the Agora Excavations of 1986. Includes a discussion of the possible location of the Aiakeion building and of the purpose, nature and implementation of the law and its historical setting.