International Conference & Public Event: Palladas and the New Papyrus

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International Conference & Public Event: Palladas and the New Papyrus

In 2012 a papyrus codex in the Beinecke Library at Yale University (P.CtYBR inv. 4000) was published. The codex contained roughly 60 new fragmentary epigrams in elegiac couplets, which were attributed by the editor of the editio princeps to Palladas of Alexandria. We present here the papers from the exciting two-day conference held at UCL in 2014. Experts on ancient epigram explore the new text from a range of perspectives, and discuss author, date, structure, historical, literary, cultural, textual and generic context. The papers will be of interest to students of the Greek epigram, Greek literary history, Greek literature under the Roman empire and manuscripts and papyri.

Session 1: Text and Context - A

Alan Cameron (Columbia)

Palladas and Constantinople

 

David Klotz (Basel)

‘Triphis, who has suffered much’:
the Egyptian temple of Triphis and its
tribulations in the Late Roman Period

 

Session 2: Text and Context - B

Gianfranco Agosti (Rome)

Metrical inscriptions and P. CtYBR inv 4000:
Contextualizing a late antique anthology

 

Luis Arturo Guichard (Salamanca)

Poetic Geographies: the Yale Book of Epigrams
in the Context of 3th-4th Century Literature

 

Session 3: Intra-/Inter-textuality

Alexander Sens (Georgetown)

Palladas and Hellenistic Epigram

 

Ginevra Vezzosi (Salerno/Salamanca)

Palladas’ Gnomic and Philosophical Epigrams
and the Yale Papyrus

 

Kathryn Gutzwiller (Cincinnati)

Palladas Sequences in the Greek Anthology
and the Yale Papyrus

 

Session 4: Iambic and Skoptic

Maria Kanellou (UCL)

Looking Back in Time: Iambic Echoes

 

Lucia Floridi (Milan)

Skoptic Epigram in P. CtYBR inv.4000

Palladas in Performance

Josephine Balmer

Palladas: The Other Half Speaks Out

Edith Hall (KCL)

Some Palladean Influences