P.Mich.inv. 2754 / Verso
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 2754
- Processing Number
- 1622
- Section/Side
- Verso (second text)
- Image Side
- Verso
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Verso, second text; faint traces of a first text, washed out, below it - Recto: register (unpublished)
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 19.2 x 23.5 cm
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- Verso, col. I - ends of 23 lines (of a col. of about 32 lines);
- Verso, col. II - 23
- Mounted
- Yes
- Negative
- Yes
- Conservation Status
- Broken off on the left side of the verso (on both sides of the recto)
- Palaeographic Description
- small, well-formed book-hand (Winter); subscription (title), with koronis
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- IInd century/(early) IIIrd century A.D.
- Origin
- unknown place, province of Egypt
- Provenance
- Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
- Acquisition
- 24-X-west side
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- Literary: Homerica
- Author
- Alcidamas
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- On Homer
- Content
- End of a work on Homer's life and death, with the concluding title
- Persons
- -
- Geographica
- -
- Translation
- And seeing him they improvised the following line:
- all that we caught, we left; all that we did not catch, we bore away.
- Not being able to understand what was said, he asked them what they meant. And they said that they had gone fishing and had caught nothing, and then they had sat down and hunted for lice. The lice which they caught they left there, but what they did not catch they carried away in their clothing. Recalling the prophecy that the end of his life was at hand, he composed this epigram to himself:
- The earth enveileth here his sacred head,
- The godlike bard who men and heroes led, Homer.
- And as he withdrew he slipped because of the mud and falling on his side so met his end, they say. In regard to this, then, we shall bring to pass that we win distinction for ourselves, especially since we see that the historians are regarded with wonder. For this, then, Homer has been honored by all men both in his life and death. Let us then thank him thus for his playful entertainment; and as for his origin and the rest of his poetry, let us hand them down through - - - of memory for the common possession of the Hellenes, to those who wish to indulge their love of the beautiful.
- ALKIDAMAS'
- ON HOMER.
- Papyri.info Link
- https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.4700
Information on Publications
- Publications
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Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections TAPA 56 Winter JG 1925 120-129 Pl. A Winter JG, TAPA 56, 120-129, 1925, Pl. A Archiv 8 Koerte A 1927 261-264 Koerte A, Archiv 8, 261-264, 1927
Information on Publications--Further Republications
- Further Republications
- Rep Editor - Gallavotti C; Rep Ser. - Riv.Fil. 57; 1929; pg. 31-59;
- Rep Editor - Evelyn-White HG-Page DL; Rep Ser. - Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns and Homerica; 1936; pg. 624-627;
- Rep Editor - Kirk GS; Rep Ser. - CQ 44; 1950; pg. 149-167;
- Rep Editor - Vogt E; Rep Ser. - RhM 102; 1959; pg. 208-211, with pl.;
- Rep Editor - West ML; Rep Ser. - CQ N.S., 17; 1967; pg. 433-450;
- Rep Editor - Koniaris GL; Rep Ser. - HSCP 75; 1971; pg. 107 - 129;
- Rep Editor - Renehan R; Rep Ser. - HSCP 75; 1971; pg. 85 - 105;
- Rep Editor - De Martino Fr; Rep Ser. - Omero quotidiano. Vite di Omero; 1984; pg. 000 (non vidimus);
- Rep Editor - Avezzu G; Rep Ser. - Alcidamante. Orazioni e frammenti; 1982; pg. 000 (non vidimus)
Information on Publications--Bibliography
- Bibliography
- J.U. Powell-E.A. Barber, New Chapters in the History of Greek Literature. 2 (Oxford, 1929) p. 37-38; 118-119; Fr. Solmsen, Hermes 67 (1932) p. 141-142; S. Abramowicz, Eos 39 (1938) p. 483-485; E.R. Dodds, CQ N.S., 2 (1952) p.187-188; K. Hess, Der Agon zwischen Homer und Hesiod, seine Entstehung und kulturgeschichtliche Stellung (Winterthur, 1960) p. 61-63; Pack[2] 76; R. Renehan, Studies in Greek Texts (Goettingen, 1976) p. 144-159; N.J. Richardson, CQ N.S. 31 (1981) 1-10; N. O'Sullivan, Alcidamas, Aristophanes and the Beginnings of Greek Stylistic Theory (Stuttgart, 1992) p. 63-105
Availability/System Requirements
- Institution
- sc
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- PH
- Year Begin
- 100
- Year End
- 224
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 5726 x 5804
- File Size
- 4 MB
- Record
- 1622
- Link to this Item
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