A “Performative” Lacuna in Petronius’s Affair of Circe and Encolpius (Satyricon 132.1-2)
By Timothy Haase
Because of the complex textual tradition of Petronius’ Satyricon, marred by fissures and rearrangements—to say nothing of the disappearance of the overwhelming majority of the original text—scholars are particularly reliant on the history of editorial judgments about the location of lacunae.
New Readings in the Derveni Papyrus
By Richard Janko
A New Work By Apuleius
By Justin Stover
In 1949, the historian of philosophy Raymond Klibansky made a dramatic announcement to the British Academy: a new Latin philosophical text dating from antiquity, a Summarium librorum Platonis, had been discovered in a manuscript of the Vatican (although he did not disclose its shelfmark). During the remaining fifty-six years of his life, until his death in 2005, his promised edition never appeared (Proceedings 1949).
The Hippocratic Critical Days: Texts and Education in Greek Late Antiquity
By James Patterson
Alexander's Persian Pillow
By Christopher Brunelle
The story that Alexander kept a copy of Homer’s Iliad under his pillow (προσκεφάλαιον; Plut. Alex. 8, 26) is justly famous but physically impossible. A copy of the full text would require more than 50 meters of papyrus [Boyd 40]; if it were partitioned into 8 scrolls, each scroll would have roughly the diameter of a can of beer [Johnson 150]. Moreover, Plutarch explicitly mentions that the text was kept safe in a casket (νάρθηξ, κιβώτιον). Ancient pillows were relatively large but not immense [Tsimpidou-Aulonite 125, 208 and figs. 30-31, 34; Richter figs.