Scribes and Scholars

• Hesiod, Catalogue of Women
• Alcman, Partheneia
• Sappho
• Ibycus
• Simonides, Elegies
• Aeschylus, Dictyulci: satyr-drama
• Critical marks: Plato, Phaedo
• Inept corrections: Plato, Phaedrus
• Revision and collation: Aeschines, In Ctesiphontem
• Menander, Misoumenos
• Callimachus, Aetia prologue
• Drifting lines: Duris?, History of Sicily
• An ancient sex manual: Philaenis, The Art of Love
• List of Epigrams
• Elegy on Gods and their Boy Loves: Hadrian and Antinoos?
• The Empire Writes Back: Oracle of the Potter
• A Greek Satyricon?: Iolaus Romance
• New Testament: Jude 4-5, 7-8
• ‘Demetrius the bookseller has them’: a reader writes
• Book Titles and Tags:
  • Example 1: Tryphon, On the Dialect of the Laconians
  • Example 2: Hermarchus, In Empedoclem IX
  • Example 3: Commentary on Simonidea
  • Example 4: Commentary on Aristophanea
  • Example 5: A reader’s memo?: Homer, Iliad 2 + month
• Textbook on mythology
• Latin texts:
  • Gaius, Institutiones IV
  • Virgil, Aeneid XI: a scribe’s exercise
• Scribes practising various styles

Material Culture