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The
Milan Papyrus offers the most significant discovery of new Greek literature
in several decades. It consists of 606 verses distributed among about 112
epigrams, apparently all composed by Posidippus of Pella, an epigrammatist
of the third century B.C. It constitutes our earliest surviving example
of a poetry book and illustrates how Greek epigrams were transmitted in
literary contexts. The Cincinnati conference will bring together leading
experts in the fields of papyrology, Hellenistic and Roman literature, art
and image studies, and Ptolemaic history to analyze and discuss this important
artifact. The conference, open to the entire scholarly community, is designed
to combine the presentations of individual scholars with ample discussion
and learning. |
