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The Demades Papyrus (P.Berol. inv. 13045) : A New Text with Commentary / Davide Amendola.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Sozomena : Studies in the Recovery of Ancient Texts ; 17Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 1 online resource (XIV, 598 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110600919
  • 9783110600407
  • 9783110602371
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 885/.01 23/eng/20220926
LOC classification:
  • PA3948.D35 A856 2022
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- I The Papyrus -- II The Origin, Nature and Purpose of the Contents of the Papyrus -- III The Papyrus’ Contribution in Historical and Historiographical Terms -- Edition and Translation -- Siglorum et compendiorum explicatio -- Editorial Note -- A Eulogy of the Lagid Monarchy (P.Berol. inv. 13045, cols. A I–III) -- The Dialogue between Demades and Dinarchus at the Macedonian Court (P.Berol. inv. 13045, cols. B I–G III) -- Commentary -- A Eulogy of the Ptolemaic Monarchy (P.Berol. inv. 13045, cols. A I–III) -- The Dialogue between Demades and Dinarchus at the Macedonian Court -- Appendix -- Demadis testimonia et fragmenta: conspectus numerorum -- Bibliography -- Sigla and Abbreviations: Reference Works, Journals and Collections -- Greek, Roman and Byzantine Authors, Lexica and Collections of Fragments -- Works Cited by Author’s Name with Date -- Indexes -- Index Verborum -- Index Locorum -- General Index -- Plates
Dissertation note: Dissertation Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa 2017. Summary: Despite the significance of its contents, the so-called Demades papyrus (P.Berol. inv. 13045) has received scarce scholarly attention since the 1923 editio princeps by Karl Kunst. This unique late second-century BCE document of almost 430 lines was found in the Egyptian chora, but it is supposed to have been written in Alexandria, where it probably served as a textbook for the highest level of rhetorical education. Besides shedding new light on its find circumstances and physical aspects, the volume offers a full re-edition and commentary of the two adespota texts contained in it, namely a eulogy of the Lagid monarchy and a historical work consisting of a dialogue between Demades and his prosecutor in the trial of 319 BCE at the court of Pella. The aim of the accompanying introduction is to address the question of the origin, nature and purpose of such fragments and of the collection itself, as well as to show to what extent the papyrus contributes to a better understanding of some of the main historical events of the early Hellenistic period. This book is thus meant to fill a significant gap in Classical scholarship, all the more so as a close investigation of most of the topics dealt with therein has hitherto been lacking.
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Dissertation Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa 2017.

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- I The Papyrus -- II The Origin, Nature and Purpose of the Contents of the Papyrus -- III The Papyrus’ Contribution in Historical and Historiographical Terms -- Edition and Translation -- Siglorum et compendiorum explicatio -- Editorial Note -- A Eulogy of the Lagid Monarchy (P.Berol. inv. 13045, cols. A I–III) -- The Dialogue between Demades and Dinarchus at the Macedonian Court (P.Berol. inv. 13045, cols. B I–G III) -- Commentary -- A Eulogy of the Ptolemaic Monarchy (P.Berol. inv. 13045, cols. A I–III) -- The Dialogue between Demades and Dinarchus at the Macedonian Court -- Appendix -- Demadis testimonia et fragmenta: conspectus numerorum -- Bibliography -- Sigla and Abbreviations: Reference Works, Journals and Collections -- Greek, Roman and Byzantine Authors, Lexica and Collections of Fragments -- Works Cited by Author’s Name with Date -- Indexes -- Index Verborum -- Index Locorum -- General Index -- Plates

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Despite the significance of its contents, the so-called Demades papyrus (P.Berol. inv. 13045) has received scarce scholarly attention since the 1923 editio princeps by Karl Kunst. This unique late second-century BCE document of almost 430 lines was found in the Egyptian chora, but it is supposed to have been written in Alexandria, where it probably served as a textbook for the highest level of rhetorical education. Besides shedding new light on its find circumstances and physical aspects, the volume offers a full re-edition and commentary of the two adespota texts contained in it, namely a eulogy of the Lagid monarchy and a historical work consisting of a dialogue between Demades and his prosecutor in the trial of 319 BCE at the court of Pella. The aim of the accompanying introduction is to address the question of the origin, nature and purpose of such fragments and of the collection itself, as well as to show to what extent the papyrus contributes to a better understanding of some of the main historical events of the early Hellenistic period. This book is thus meant to fill a significant gap in Classical scholarship, all the more so as a close investigation of most of the topics dealt with therein has hitherto been lacking.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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