L. Del Corso - R. Luiselli, Literary Papyri from the Bodleian Library and Other Institutions. Contributions by A. Benaissa, N. Gonis, R. Hatzilambrou, M. Zellmann-Rohrer

This volume collects 20 Greek and Latin literary papyri, mostly unpublished, which are housed in several collections: some belong to the Bodleian Library, Oxford, others to Institutions scattered all around the world: the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, the Bibliothèque de Geneve, the Library of Columbia University, New York, the IFAO, Cairo. The variety of the institutions holding the papyri is matched by the diversity of contents, book formats, and scripts. The texts range from prose to poetry, from erudition to astrology and divination. Moreover, they come from a wide geographical area in the Egyptian chora, and range in date from the early Ptolemaic period to Late Antiquity’. This collection of texts represents an example of the contribution which the study of papyri offers to the reconstruction of the classical literary heritage.