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Facts from Fragments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 September 2009

Peter Parsons
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‘He is the surgeon of old authors, and heals the wounds of dust and ignorance. He converses much in fragments and desunt multas.’ This was the typical classical scholar, as described by John Earle in 1632; nowadays, the words would apply most readily to the papyrologist. Papyrology's business is with the papyri, the books and papers of the Greek-speaking settler-class which ruled Egypt for ten centuries (300 B.C.–A.D. 700). The Greek Egyptians dumped their waste-paper; and the Egyptian climate has preserved it – dirty, tattered, and worm-eaten – for our study. This vast rubbish-dump provides, and will go on providing, a whole range of new evidence for historians of Greek literature and Roman government. This paper sets out to survey some recent contributions.

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Greece & Rome , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , October 1982, pp. 184 - 195
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1982

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