In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jim O'Hara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >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).
Correct: pp. 5-16; see too Werner Suerbaum, 'Der Pyrrhos-Krieg in Ennius' Annales VI im Lichte der ersten Ennius-Papyri aus Herculaneum', Zeischrift f�r Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 106 (1995), 31-52, and on the Lucretius find id., 'Zum Umfang der B�cher in der archaischer lateinischen Dichting: Naevius, Ennius, Lukrez und Livius Andronikus auf Papyrus-Rollen', ZPE 92 (1992), 153-73. > All this is now some years old. More recently see Knut Kleve, 'How to Read an Illegible Papyrus. Towards an Edition of _PHerc._ 78, Caecilius Statius, _Obolostates sive Faenerator_, Cronache Ercolanesi, 26 (1996), 5-14. I have some difficulties with the reconstructions, and it would be nice if they scanned, but the author and title seem legible enough; the appear in the margin near a plausible PLA[udite]. The papyrus was in fact openeds as long ago as 1805, but dismissed as illegible. Remember that for the late Republic neither Plautus nor Terence stood higher in esteem than Caecilius; but when the comic poets re-emerged from the disdain in which the Augustans and post-Augustans had held them, he fell between the stools of Terence, more refined and school author, and Plautus, more archaic and elemental. 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
