Catalog Record: michigan.apis.3943 [xml]
Title | Fragment of a Homer-Hypothesis with no gods |
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Author | Unknown |
Summary | The papyrus contains a prose summary of the seventh and eigth books of the Iliad which is unlike extant Homer-hypotheses in manuscripts or on papyri in two respects. First, it quotes not only the first line of each book, as papyrus hypotheses do regularly, but also the last line. Second, the hypothesis omits all mention of gods. Deities play a minor role in these books, so it is conceivable that the hypothesizer could have left them out here, because of their lack of importance to the narrative, but still have included them in his hypotheses of e.g. Books 1, 5, 20 (rapsodies A, E, and Y). The second of the two manuscript hypotheses to book 7 (H) and 8 (TH) omits the gods in 7 (H) but mentions their more prominent role in 9 (TH). |
Citations | O'Hara JJ, ZPE 56, 1-9, 1984, Pl Ia,b |
Inv. Id | P.Mich.inv. 921 |
Support/Dimensions | 3 papyri ; 1: 12.7 x 5.3 cm; 2: 10.8 x 9 cm; 3: 11.7 x 7.5 cm |
Condition | Broken off at the left and right sides. |
Lines | 39 lines |
Recto/Verso | Source of description: A + B Verso |
Hands | It is written in a regular but hurried book hand. The two pieces of 920 are to be joined at lines 12-14. If two lines are lost in the lacuna between 920 and 921, column height was c. 35 cm. column width is c. 9 cm. Upper and lower margins are c. 3.2 cm. Line beginnings swerve increasingly to the left (Maas' law). There is one correction in l. 38. The omission of a name in l. 7 has not been corrected. There are no punctuations, breathings, accents and other diacritical marks. Iota adscript is written only with omega, omitted with alpha or eta. |
Origin | Unknown |
Language | Greek |
Date | IInd-IIIrd century A.D. |
Note (general) | Location: Ann Arbor |
Note (general) | Pub. status: Verso; Recto is unpublished |
Note (related) | 920 (a + b) |
Subjects | Lemnos; Literary; hypothesis; Papyrus |
Associated Names | Hellenes [Greeks]; Achaioi [Achaeans]; Nestor; Agamemnon; Diomedes; Idomeneus; Kretes [Cretans]; Thoas; Eurypylos; Odysseus; Aias Telamon; Eos; Teukros; Troes [Trojans]; Hektor; Aiantes |
Images | Verso thumbnail |
Images | Verso medium |
Images | Verso large |
License | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License. |
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