Latin Texts on Papyrus and the Study of Classics

This volume gathers 25 chapters focused on Latin texts on papyrus, exploring them from multi- and cross-disciplinary perspectives. It serves as a companion to the texts published in The Corpus of Latin Texts on Papyrus (Cambridge, forthcoming). The chapters provide in-depth analyses of the chosen texts from literary, philological, linguistic, and historical perspectives, or offer methodological reflections on Latin texts on papyrus, promoting innovative approaches. They cover topics ranging from palaeography and philology to Latin literature and from ancient law to ancient and medieval history, and brilliantly demonstrate the potential of Latin texts on papyrus to inspire and illuminate the field of Classics.

Author Biography

MARIA CHIARA SCAPPATICCIO is Full Professor of Latin Language and Literature at the Università di Napoli ‘Federico II’, where she was also Principal Investigator for the European Research Council-funded project PLATINUM (Papyri and Latin Texts: Insights and Updated Methodologies. Towards a Philological, Literary and Historical Approach to Latin Papyri – ERC-StG 2014 no. 636983). Her books include Artes grammaticae in frammenti. I testi grammaticali latini e bilingui su papiro: edizione commentate (2015) and Fabellae. Frammenti di favole latine e bilingui greco-latine di traduzione diretta (II-IV d.C.) (2017). She is the editor of The Corpus of Latin Texts on Papyrus (Cambridge, 2024).