Reading and reconstruction: A fragment of old comedy from Oxyrhynchus

Handley, Eric (2008) Reading and reconstruction: A fragment of old comedy from Oxyrhynchus. Acta Antiqua, 48 (1-2). pp. 49-54. ISSN 0044-5975

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Abstract

A fragment of a book-roll from Oxyrhynchus, dated by its handwriting to the second/third century AD, is here briefly presented as a case-study in the reading and restoration of previously unknown Greek texts. It is argued that the fragment is part of a choral lyric from an Athenian Old Comedy, perhaps the Ploutoi of Cratinus, and that it may mention Pericles at a time not long before his death in 429 BC.

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