Based on the Greek papyri dating from the third century BC to the eighth AD, catalogues place names in a region south of Alexandria from which the city drew the resources to maintain it as a world cit
Schironi has performed a Herculean task in her study of the end markers on papyri of Greek hexametric poetry. Working with fragments often only a few centimeters across, she has determined how the clo
Making use of the thousands of papyri and ostraca that have been discovered in recent years, which reveal a fuller picture of the life than most in any other Roman province, Lewis departs form the usu
The topic of invisibility is intriguing to a broad spectrum of readers (four-year-old children, magicians, spiritual seekers, scientists of various types); but this is a scholarly monograph, a doctora
Clackson (1965-2003) devoted her career to reconstructing monastic archives and editing papyri, and the September 2004 symposium in her memory was held at Oxford University where she worked. The paper
Marking comments on texts has probably been a scholarly practice since the creation of texts. Often the comments, be they corrections or notes, are more interesting than the texts themselves, offering
