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Hardback. New. P.Oxy. LXXXIV marks a new departure for the series: it is the first to publish texts in Egyptian. One is a Greek-Coptic paraphrase of Homer's Iliad, the other a sale of house property in Demotic accompanied by a Greek tax receipt. Section I presents extensive remains of a set of codices of the Septuagint. Section II includes a miscellany of new literary and subliterary texts: remnants of post-Classical hexameter poetry, a possible fragment of Middle comedy with an Anacreontic theme, and a cento of Homeric verses on the myth of Daphne. The seventeen papyri of Apollonius Rhodius published in Section III, providing some two dozen new readings, confirm the Argonautica's status as the most popular epic poem in Roman Egypt after the Homeric and Hesiodic classics. The papyri of Apollonius are complemented by a painting of a wheeled float carrying the Argonauts, perhaps an illustration of a local spectacle. Section IV publishes twenty declarations of livestock from the first and second…
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by Amin Benaissa (Editor); Nikolaos Gonis (Editor); W. Benjamin Henry (Editor)
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- Title The Oxyrhynchus Papyri Vol. LXXXIV
- Author Amin Benaissa (Editor); Nikolaos Gonis (Editor); W. Benjamin Henry (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 280
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- Language ENG
- Publisher Egypt Exploration Society
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- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region: Greece
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