Corpus of Latin Texts on Papyrus: Volume 4, Part IV

Author: Maria Chiara Scappaticcio, Eleanor Dickey and Lucia C. Colella

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A comprehensive, up-to-date and unique reference-tool in six volumes, gathering nearly 1500 Latin texts on papyrus.

This corpus includes literary and documentary texts, dating from the first century BC to the Middle Ages, and provides new knowledge about the circulation of Latin and many aspects of the ancient Mediterranean world.

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A comprehensive, up-to-date and unique reference-tool in six volumes, gathering nearly 1500 Latin texts on papyrus.

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The Corpus of Latin Texts on Papyrus (CLTP) is a comprehensive, up-to-date, and unique reference tool in six volumes, gathering nearly 1,500 Latin texts on papyrus. Editions are provided with both a palaeographic and a critical apparatus, English translations, and detailed introductions. The texts in CLTP cover a wide chronological range and many different types and genres. They include both literary and documentary texts, dating from the first century BC to the Middle Ages. They provide new knowledge about the circulation of Latin, offering unique insights into textual transmission and indeed into Latin literature itself, but also into topics such as ancient education and multilingualism, economics, society, culture, and multiculturalism in the ancient Mediterranean world. The result is a lasting and crucial reference work for all those interested in the history of Latin and of the Roman world.

About the Author

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'.