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These Shreds, Guardians of Human Memory: Papyrus and Culture in Late Antiquity

Inaugural Lecture delivered on Thursday 7 January 2016

Traduttore: Liz Libbrecht

Papyrology, which burgeoned in the nineteenth century after the discovery of thousands of papyri in Egypt, consists in the study of Greek and Latin texts written on a transportable medium (papyrus, clay potsherds, wooden tablets or parchment). While inscriptions and literary sources can render a normative, idealized and sometimes deformed image of individuals, papyri – no matter how fragmented they may be – take us into their daily lives, thus making possible the archaeology of cultural pr...


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  • Editore : Collège de France
  • Collana : Leçons inaugurales
  • Luogo di pubblicazione : Paris
  • Anno di pubblicazione : 2018
  • Pubblicato su OpenEdition Books : 20 novembre 2018
  • EAN digitale : 978-2-7226-0500-8
  • DOI : 10.4000/books.cdf.5807
Nicolas Grimal
Introduction
Jean-Luc Fournet
These Shreds, Guardians of Human Memory: Papyrus and Culture in Late Antiquity

Inaugural Lecture delivered on Thursday 7 January 2016

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