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The Demades Papyrus (P.Berol. inv. 13045) - A New Text with Commentary (Hardcover)
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The Demades Papyrus (P.Berol. inv. 13045) - A New Text with Commentary (Hardcover)
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Despite the significance of its contents, the so-called Demades
papyrus (P.Berol. inv. 13045) has received scarce scholarly
attention since the 1923 editio princeps by Karl Kunst. This unique
late second-century BCE document of almost 430 lines was found in
the Egyptian chora, but it is supposed to have been written in
Alexandria, where it probably served as a textbook for the highest
level of rhetorical education. Besides shedding new light on its
find circumstances and physical aspects, the volume offers a full
re-edition and commentary of the two adespota texts contained in
it, namely a eulogy of the Lagid monarchy and a historical work
consisting of a dialogue between Demades and his prosecutor in the
trial of 319 BCE at the court of Pella. The aim of the accompanying
introduction is to address the question of the origin, nature and
purpose of such fragments and of the collection itself, as well as
to show to what extent the papyrus contributes to a better
understanding of some of the main historical events of the early
Hellenistic period. This book is thus meant to fill a significant
gap in Classical scholarship, all the more so as a close
investigation of most of the topics dealt with therein has hitherto
been lacking.
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