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Sillyboi o Sillyba? (Cicerone, Ad Attico 4, 4a; 4, 8, 2; 4, 5, 4)
No full textRiconsiderazione dei controversi luoghi dell'epistolario ciceroniano in cui si nomina il termine greco designante le etichette librarie. Non si tratterebbe del maschile sillybos ma del neutro sillybon
Gli scribi del tiranno, i librai del demos
No full textAccording to various sources, Peisistratus was the first to have made a public collection of books at athens. it seems likely, how- ever, that such a βιβλιοθήκη was the product of a curious misunderstanding: in archaic athens, βιβλιοθήκη wasn’t yet ‘the library’, but simply the box (θήκη) containing books (βιβλίων). the question is also related to the first athenian ‘edition’ of homer. several testimonia suggest that Peisistratus was the first to order the previously “confused” books of homer. removing additions and variants introduced by rhapsodes, Peisistratus and his son hipparchus, the wisest of the Pei- sistratids, produced an official athenocentric ‘edition’ of homer. it is noteworthy that Plutarch refers to an addition of a line into the odyssey “to gratify the athenians”. all this might suggest that tyrant himself was the sole textual ‘editor’ of a ‘new’ literary product (Iliad and odyssey) per- formed at the Panathenaic festival. as helpers in the transcription of this book collection, Peisis- tratus and hipparchus had surely a group of professional (ionian?) scribes (βιβλιαγράφοι). although it is probable that they worked only at the service of the tyrants, we can argue that, after the expulsion of hippias from athens, in 510 b.c., they continued activities connected to writing in the spaces close to the orchestra of the agora. this orchestra was the place where Iliad and odyssey were performed at the Panathenaic festival, and in which later books were sold, as socrates says in Plato’s Apology. the possibility that the book collection of the Peisistratids was preserved in the large “house of the colonnade court”, as thompson labelled Building F (which many scholars believe to have been the tyrant’s headquarters), erected close to the orchestra gives a clue to explain the reason of the name βιβλιοθῆκαι attested by Pollux for the book-market in athens
Su un valore semantico del gr. λαμβάνω
No full textA parallel for the meaning of lat. emere (nearly = buy) is given by gr. λαμβάνω, which moves from ‘take’ to buy. The origin of this semantic value, neglected by scholars, seems to go up again to the business vocabulary of the barter. The article examines the historical and linguistic origin of this semantic value, offering, for the first time, a discussion of a large number of literary passages from tragedy, comedy, and prose
Il titolo iniziale nel rotolo librario greco-egizio. Con un catalogo delle testimonianze iconografiche greche e di area vesuviana
No full textDei rari titoli iniziali, restituiti da frammenti di rotoli librari greco-egizi, la monografia presenta una riedizione (e, in un caso, l'editio princeps), corredata da tavole a colori, anche inedite. Il titolo iniziale poteva essere apposto esternamente (sillyba) e all'interno del rotolo, spesso in compresenza di titoli di sezione e di subscriptiones. Alla documentazione papiracea è affiancato un corredo di testimonianze iconografiche greche e di area vesuviana
Il commercio dei libri nell'Egitto greco-romano
No full textThe limited occurence of the term bibliopoles, hapax in the papyri and rarely attested in Greek texts, should be related to book circulation in Greco-Roman Egypt, which flourished mostly through private copying. A large number of private letters and catalogues of book-titles on papyrus shows that not only in the most important cities of Egypt, like Alexandria, but also in the chora, there must
have been a fairly large readership and an active booktrade
Il papiro in una ‘lista di spesa’ dall’Agora e nella commedia greca
No full textA fragment of a ‘shopping list’ from Athenian Agora, edited by Mabel Lang as ‘Athens B14’ (IV-III B.C.), but not studied so far as an evidence on Athenian book trade, suggests to place the sale of papyrus, already evoked by Eupolis (fr. 327 K-A), in a market area close to the so called Orchestra. The hi storical value of this fragment is confirmed by some passages of Attic comedy, and by archaeological evidence
La numerazione dei drammi greci nella tradizione manoscritta antica e medievale
No full textAnalisi delle sette testimonianze, di diversa provenienza, che attestano l'esistenza di (almeno) tre sistemi di numerazione dei drammi antichi: 1) catalogo secondo un ordinamento alfabetico; 2) catalogo cronologico, secondo la successione temporale delle date di rappresentazione dei drammi; catalogo tematico, sulla base degli argomenti trattati
Un modello saffico in Stratone? (Note a Strat. AP XII 185)
No full textThe erotic metaphor of unattainable fig/παῖς, presented by Strato in AP XII 185, may be a not unaware detorsio of Sappho’s fr. 105a Voigt, which gives us the memorable image of the apple/γυνή ripening on the top of the highest branch of a tree, left by apple-pickers because they could not reach it
Note su chartotomos, trikollema, chartopoios e chartopoles nei papiri e nelle iscrizioni. Aggiunte e correzioni al LSJ
No full textDiscussione dei termini greci chartotomos, trikollema, chartopoios e chartopoles
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