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Title:Culture in pieces : essays on ancient texts in honour of Peter Parsons / edited by Dirk Obbink and Richard Rutherford.
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ISBN:9780199292011
0199292019
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Published/Created:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
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Physical Description:xviii, 342 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Notes:"This volume originated in a conference with the same title which the editors organized in Christ Church, Oxford, between 20 and 23 September 2006 in honour of Professor Peter Parson's seventieth birthday, which fell on 24 September."--Preface.
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BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
Bibliography of Peter Parsons: p. [323]-333.
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Contents:Vanishing conjecture: the recovery of lost books from Aristotle to Eco / Dirk Obbink -- Pindar as a man of letters / Martin West -- The papyri of Herodotus / Stephanie R. West -- The use and abuse of irony / Richard Rutherford -- Greek letters in Hellenistic Bactria / Adrian Hollis -- Menander and his rivals: new light from the Comic Adespota? / Heinz-Gùˆnther Nesselrath -- The rediscovery of Menander / Eric Handley -- "My daughter and her dowry": Smikrines in Menander's Epitrepontes / Colin Austin -- More facts from fragments? / Annette Harder -- Remapping the Mediterranean: the Argo adventure in Apollonius and Callimachus / Susan Stephens -- Theudotus of Lipara (Callimachus, fr. 93 Pf.) / Giulio Massimilla -- The reputation of Callimachus / Richard Hunter -- Telling tales: Ovid's Metamorphoses and Callimachus / Gregory Hutchinson -- On ancient prose rhythm: the story of the dichoreus / Michael Winterbottom -- Alexander of Aphrodisias, De prouidentia: Greek fragments and Arabic versions / Christopher Riedweg -- Missing pages: papyrology, genre, and the Greek novel / Albert Henrichs.
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Subjects:Parsons, P. J.--Bibliography.
Literature, Ancient--Congresses.
Manuscripts (Papyri)--Congresses.
Civilization, Ancient--Congresses.
Classical philology--Congresses.
Classical literature--Manuscripts--Congresses.
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Also listed under:Parsons, P. J.
Obbink, Dirk.
Rutherford, R. B.
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