Latin Texts on Papyrus and the Study of Classics

Approaches Latin texts on papyrus from multi-disciplinary perspectives to demonstrate their potential to illuminate the field of Classics.

This volume gathers 25 chapters focused on Latin texts on papyrus, exploring them from multi- and cross-disciplinary perspectives in order to demonstrate their potential to illuminate the field of Classics. It serves as a companion to the texts published in The Corpus of Latin Texts on Papyrus (Cambridge, forthcoming).This volume gathers 25 chapters focused on Latin texts on papyrus, exploring them from multi- and cross-disciplinary perspectives. It serves as a companion to the texts published in The Corpus of Latin Texts on Papyrus (Cambridge, forthcoming). The chapters provide in-depth analyses of the chosen texts from literary, philological, linguistic, and historical perspectives, or offer methodological reflections on Latin texts on papyrus, promoting innovative approaches. They cover topics ranging from palaeography and philology to Latin literature and from ancient law to ancient and medieval history, and brilliantly demonstrate the potential of Latin texts on papyrus to inspire and illuminate the field of Classics.