Graeme Bird examines a small group of early papyrus manuscripts
of Homer's "Iliad," known as the Ptolemaic papyri, which, although
fragmentary, are the oldest surviving physical evidence of the text
of the Iliad, dating from the third to the first centuries BCE.
These papyri have been described as "eccentric" or even "wild"
by some scholars. They differ significantly from the usual text of
the "Iliad," sometimes showing lines with different wording, at
other times including so-called "interpolated" lines that are
completely absent from our more familiar version.
Whereas some scholars denigrate these papyri because of their
"eccentricity," this book analyzes their unusual readings and shows
that in fact they present authentic variations on the Homeric text,
based on the variability characteristic of oral performance.
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