{"title":"Alcidamas and the Idea of Literary History: P. Mich. Inv. 2754","authors":"Henry L. Spelman","doi":"10.1086/726374","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The problematic and important P. Mich. Inv. 2754 is generally agreed to preserve part of Alcidamas’ Mouseion, and that work is in turn generally agreed to lie behind the extant Contest of Homer and Hesiod. Building on and sometimes diverging from James Porter’s recent contribution in this journal, this essay offers new answers to long-standing problems. Section 1 interprets the difficult final lines of the Michigan papyrus. Section 2 adduces corroborating evidence by drawing parallels with the Contest. Section 3 argues that the papyrus preserves the end of Alcidamas’ Mouseion, which was also known as his On Homer. Section 4 offers a more holistic interpretation of the Mouseion and its epilogue.","PeriodicalId":46255,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7000,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1086/726374","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"N/A","JCRName":"CLASSICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The problematic and important P. Mich. Inv. 2754 is generally agreed to preserve part of Alcidamas’ Mouseion, and that work is in turn generally agreed to lie behind the extant Contest of Homer and Hesiod. Building on and sometimes diverging from James Porter’s recent contribution in this journal, this essay offers new answers to long-standing problems. Section 1 interprets the difficult final lines of the Michigan papyrus. Section 2 adduces corroborating evidence by drawing parallels with the Contest. Section 3 argues that the papyrus preserves the end of Alcidamas’ Mouseion, which was also known as his On Homer. Section 4 offers a more holistic interpretation of the Mouseion and its epilogue.
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Classical Philology has been an internationally respected journal for the study of the life, languages, and thought of the Ancient Greek and Roman world since 1906. CP covers a broad range of topics from a variety of interpretative points of view. CP welcomes both longer articles and short notes or discussions that make a significant contribution to the study of Greek and Roman antiquity. Any field of classical studies may be treated, separately or in relation to other disciplines, ancient or modern. In particular, we invite studies that illuminate aspects of the languages, literatures, history, art, philosophy, social life, and religion of ancient Greece and Rome. Innovative approaches and originality are encouraged as a necessary part of good scholarship.
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