Here is a note from the Classics List in 1994 about Herculaneum texts of Lucretius and Ennius:
> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 > From: Michael Haslam > Subject: Re: NewishEnniusFrag? > > Jim O'Hara asks about the Ennius papyrus. It was at the International Congress > of Papyrologists in Cairo, in September 1989, that Prof. Knut Kleve gave a > paper in which he announced the discovery not only of Lucretius but also of > Ennius among the Herculaneum papyri. This was in a session devoted to the > Herculaneum papyri, attended almost exclusively by Italians. He said there > were some 20-odd fragments in the Ennius bunch, all so badly damaged that the > nature of the text had earlier been unclear, but now they were recognized as > hexameters; he assigned them to Annales bk.6, relating them to the war with > Pyrrhus. Though it didn't make much of a splash, this for me was the most > exciting event of the Congress (I exclude extra-Congress activities), & I > stood up and said so, & also urged him to consult immediately with the then > ailing Otto Skutsch. (I gather that he did, and I'd dearly like to know what > Skutsch made of it: someone may know, I don't.) Kleve showed a slide of his > transcripts of the two biggest bits (both broken on all sides), which I copied > and distributed to colleagues on my return to UCLA a few days later. Kleve > published the Lucretius (or alleged Lucretius: there seems room for doubt to > me) in the Cronache Ercolanesi 19, 1989, 5-27, & the Ennius (or alleged > Ennius--but the attribution seems good to me) ib. 20, 1990 (I think: I don't > have precise ref. to hand). All this is now some years old. -- Jim O'Hara Paddison Professor of Latin 206B Howell Hall (919) 962-7649 fax: (919) 962-4036 [EMAIL PROTECTED] James J. O'Hara Department of Classics CB# 3145, 101 Howell Hall The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3145 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
