{"id":31,"date":"2015-04-24T13:22:56","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T17:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/schironi\/?page_id=31"},"modified":"2024-10-30T20:08:09","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T00:08:09","slug":"hellenistic-scholarship-and-papyrology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/schironi\/research\/hellenistic-scholarship-and-papyrology\/","title":{"rendered":"Hellenistic Scholarship and Papyrology"},"content":{"rendered":"
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P.Mich. 1206 (3rd-4th cent. CE). Commentary to Iliad 14, 316-48 with Aristarchean critical signs. Image digitally reproduced with the permission of the Papyrology Collection, University of Michigan Library.<\/p><\/div>\n

Aristarchus of Samothrace, the most important grammarian working in the Library of Alexandria, has been the focus of my research for several years. I have written articles on him and on Alexandrian scholarship as well as a book collecting Aristarchus’ fragments in the Byzantine Etymologica (G\u00f6ttingen 2004). Recently\u00a0I have finished a monograph\u00a0on\u00a0Aristarchus\u2019 work on the Iliad<\/em>, focusing on his methodology and critical principles (Ann Arbor 2018).<\/p>\n

Most of my work with papyri concerns literary and sub-literary papyri connected with scholarship, especially lexica and commentaries on papyrus. I also like to look at literary papyri as ‘artifacts’ \u00a0to reconstruct the characteristics and physical features of ancient books.\u00a0For example, in TO MEGA BIBLION<\/em>\u00a0(Durham NC 2010) I studied book-conventions in rolls and codices containing hexametric poetry .\u00a0Most recently I became \u00a0interested in the editorial practices\u00a0connected with the Greek Bible, and especially in\u00a0Origen’s use of Alexandrian critical signs in relation to the Hexapla.<\/p>\n

Together with Luigi Battezzato (Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy) I am the editor of New Texts from Ancient Cultures, UMPress (https:\/\/www.press.umich.edu\/browse\/series\/UM98<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

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