Chapter 2. Toward a Poetics of Embedded Letters Josephus’ competent readers would have been familiar with the practice of embedding letters, as discussed in Chapter One. By describing epistolary embedding in detail, this chapter will argue that Josephus’ readers would have been quite prepared to apprehend the various ways in which embedded letters interact with their surrounding […]

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Chapter 1. Introduction: Tragedy, Authority, and Trickery; A Greeting [In this on-line version, the page-numbers of the printed version are indicated within braces (“{” and “}”). For example, “{69|70}” indicates where p. 69 of the printed version ends and p. 70 begins. These indications will be useful to readers who need to look up references made elsewhere […]

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Abbreviations AJC Meshorer, Y. 1982. Ancient Jewish Coinage. Dix Hills, NY. AJP American Journal of Philology ANRW Temporini, H., and W. Haase, eds. 1972–. Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt. Berlin. BMCR Bryn Mawr Classical Review BNP Brill’s New Pauly: Encyclopedia of the Ancient […]

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Acknowledgments This book began as my D.Phil. thesis at Oxford, where I had the rigorous and pleasant experience of being supervised by Professor Martin Goodman and Professor Chris Pelling. They taught me much and continued to be generous with their help even after I took my degree. I especially thank Professor Pelling […]

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Online edition of Hellenic Studies 42, originally published in 2010 by the Trustees for Harvard University. Copyright, Center for Hellenic Studies. Also available for purchase in print via Harvard University Press here.

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Bibliography Note: In the notes and essays of this volume we have used the abbreviation MHV (= The Making of Homeric Verse) for Adam Parry’s 1971 edition of the collected works of Milman Parry. Ahlberg-Cornell, G. 1992. Myth and Epos in Early Greek Art: Representation and Interpretation. Jonsered. […]

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Commentary 10.1ff. The opening lines of this book follow what seems to be a traditional pattern in which a pressing situation causes an inability to sleep, which in turn results in the formulation of a plan of action. We can compare 10.1ff. to the beginnings of Books 2 and 9 for a more […]

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Venetus A (Marcianus Graecus Z. 454 [= 822]) Marcianus Gr. Z. 454 (= 822) is the earliest extant, complete manuscript of the Iliad, and it is the one on which modern printed texts are primarily based. (The few medieval manuscripts that predate it contain commentary and paraphrases or portions of the poem, […]

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Iliad p46 (Mertens-Pack 658; P. Cairo Maspero inv. 67172-4 + P. Berol. inv. 10570 + P. Strasb. inv. G 1654 + P. Rein. 2.70) Text based on the edition of Alexander Loney, after the edition of J.-L. Fournet (1999) [1] This papyrus codex from the sixth century CE exists in pieces […]

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Iliad p425 (Mertens-Pack 855.1; P. Berol. inv. 11911 + 17038 + 17048 + 21155) Text based on the edition of Bart Huelsenbeck and Alexander Loney, after the edition of H. Maehler; W. Müller; G. Poethke (1976) [1] The fragments of this early-third-century CE papyrus scroll found in Hermoupolis Magna in Egypt […]

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