Corpus of Latin Texts on Papyrus 6 Volume Hardback Set, 9781108868709
Unearth lost Latin texts on papyrus: a world revealed.

Corpus of Latin Texts on Papyrus 6 Volume Hardback Set

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  • 2832 pages

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    4 September 2025

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Summary

Unveiling the Secrets of Ancient Rome: The Corpus of Latin Texts on Papyrus

The Corpus of Latin Texts on Papyrus (CLTP) is an unprecedented six-volume hardback set, a comprehensive and up-to-date reference work that assembles nearly 1,500 Latin texts preserved on papyrus. Each text is presented with a meticulous palaeographic and critical apparatus, accompanied by English translations and insightful introductions.

Spanning from the first century BC to the Middle Ages, the te…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781108868709
ISBN-10:1108868703
Author:Maria Chiara Scappaticcio, Eleanor Dickey, Lucia C. Colella
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Imprint:Cambridge University Press
Number of Pages:2832
Release Date:4 September 2025
Weight:8.59kg
Dimensions:286mm x 224mm x 185mm
About The Author

Maria Chiara Scappaticcio

MARIA CHIARA SCAPPATICCIO is Professor in Latin Language and Literature at the University of Naples ‘Federico II’, where she was also Principal Investigator for the European Research Council-funded project PLATINUM (Papyri and LAtin Texts: INsights and Updated Methodologies. Towards a Philological, Literary and Historical Approach to Latin Papyri – ERC-StG 2014 no. 636983). She has held several postdoctoral fellowships, including one at the Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes (IRHT) in Paris, and has been a visiting fellow at Columbia University, New York University, the Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa) and the Université de Paris Sorbonne. Her research focusses on Latin literary texts transmitted by papyrus, on ancient education and grammar, on fragmentary Latin literature and on Latin literacy. She has published a number of articles and monographs, including Artes grammaticae in frammenti. I testi grammaticali latini e bilingui su papiro: edizione commentata (2015) and Fabellae. Frammenti di favole latine e bilingui greco-latine di tradizione diretta (II-IV d.C.) (2017).

Eleanor Dickey is Professor of Classics at the University of Reading and a Fellow of the British Academy.

LUCIA C. COLELLA is a post-doctoral researcher from the University of Naples ‘Federico II’.

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