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A one-day conference at St John's College, Oxford,
on Friday, June 13th, 2008
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The so-called Papyrus of Artemidorus with its three parts - a text, a
map, and images - is one of the most spectacular artefacts published in
this decade.
The one-day conference at St John's College, Oxford,
brought specialists on all aspects of the papyrus together. We were
especially glad that colleagues from Germany, Italy, Switzerland, the UK and the USA
had agreed to participate.
Papers and contributions were given by, among others, Gianfranco
Adornato (Pisa/Italy), Margarethe
Billerbeck (Fribourg/CH), Dirk
Obbink (Oxford/UK), Peter
Parsons (Oxford/UK), Nicholas
Purcell (Oxford/UK), Richard
Talbert (UNC Chapel Hill/USA) and Nigel
Wilson (Oxford/UK).
The aim of the conference was to study the artefact, and its text, map, and
images, as "gobbets" first (in a well-established Oxford tradition), thus
contributing to a deeper understanding of what the papyrus presents,
before discussing probabilities and authenticities.
The papers, supplemented by contrioutions
read or presented during the discussion, by Luciano Canfora, Gideon Nisbet,
and Martin West, and full b/w illustrations of the papyrus and its parts,
courtesy of the original publishers, are now in print:
K. Brodersen / J. Elnser (eds.):
Images and Texts on the “Artemidorus Papyrus” (Historia
Einzelschriften 214). Stuttgart: Steiner 2009. Click
here to order the book.
Kai Brodersen -
Jas Elsner
12/12/2009 |
