There is P. Herc. 817 CLA III.385 an anonymous Carmen de Bello Actiaco excavated 1752 and unrolled 1805 (see Reynolds, Texts and Transmission). Bischof, (Palaeography, p. 57) mentions 'the Latin papyri (note plural) from Herculaneum. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Nov 26 08:53:35 2001 X-Mozilla-Status: 0010 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Nov 25 13:32:28 2001 Received: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by wilsonwork.com (8.11.6) id fAPDW6R08953; Sun, 25 Nov 2001 13:32:06 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: wilsonwork.com: wilsonwk set sender to [EMAIL PROTECTED] using -f Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 13:14:08 +0000 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Leofranc Holford-Strevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: VIRGIL: Herculaneum manuscripts References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Turnpike Integrated Version 4.02 U <5F+CKYUQomUVIsIr63$Pff++gY> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: bulk Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-UIDL: pW<"!14=!!8`)!!7!>!! Status: U
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Helen Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >There is P. Herc. 817 CLA III.385 an anonymous Carmen de Bello Actiaco >excavated 1752 and unrolled 1805 (see Reynolds, Texts and Transmission). >Bischof, (Palaeography, p. 57) mentions 'the Latin papyri (note plural) from >Herculaneum. >From a programme aired in the last year over here on the Herculaneum >manuscripts, it seems that the Latin section of the library is still >unexcavated, but that its excavation is not a very high priority despite the >great improvements in handling this admittedly fragile material. The >subtext seemed to me to be that the Greekmanuscrip people are calling the >shots, and they really don't want to be bothered by the Latin material - but >then I am a bitter and twisted individual who would happily consign >Philodemus and all his works to the Vesuvian caldera for a complete Varo and >a author contemporary Eclogues. >Helen COB >Note that the authenticity of the Gallus fragment was questioned by >Brunholzl in 1984 (any defence recently?) I believe someone did reply, but we just don't take his objections seriously; since he is a respected scholar in his own field, the politest response is to pretend one didn't hear. Fragments of Ennius, Caecilius Statius, and Lucretius have turned up; in particular, we now know that the last word of Annales VI was exactly what it should have been, _Burrus_. But I can't second Helen's views on Philodemus, been involved in the project on the OUP side of things. Leofranc Holford-Strevens *_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_* Leofranc Holford-Strevens 67 St Bernard's Road usque adeone Oxford scire MEVM nihil est, nisi ME scire hoc sciat alter? OX2 6EJ tel. +44 (0)1865 552808(home)/267865(work) fax +44 (0)1865 512237 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) *_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_* ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub
