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Teaching Delivery:听This module is taught in 20 weekly lectures
Content: Each class will focus on a small number of texts, one or two of which will be studied in detail on a photograph. The texts are chosen to illustrate the development of Greek cursive scripts and bookhands; to examine formal aspects of the transmission of Greek literature on papyrus; and to give an idea of the range of documentary types available as sources for the history of Egypt from the age of the Ptolemies to late antiquity.
Skills: This module aims to introduce participants to the study of Greek papyri, documentary as well as literary, and to offer training in editing them.
Recommended preparatory reading:听
E. G. Turner, Greek Papyri. An Introduction (Oxford 1980); R. S. Bagnall (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Papyrology (New York/Oxford 2009).
Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
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This module description was last updated on 8th April 2024.
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