By Kathryn Gutzwiller
The Milan Papyrus (P. Mil. Volg. VIII. 309), containing a suite of epigrams it appears all via Posidippus of Pella, offers some of the most intriguing new additions to the corpus of Greek literature in many years. It not just comprises over a hundred formerly unknown epigrams through probably the most well known poets of the 3rd century BC, yet as an artifact it constitutes our earliest instance of a Greek poetry ebook. as well as a poetic translation of the full corpus of Posidippus' poetry, this quantity comprises essays approximately Posidippus by way of specialists within the fields of papyrology, Hellenistic and Augustan literature, Ptolemaic heritage, and Graeco-Roman visible tradition.
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XIII 1-4) 81 . . Dorian leaves of celery [honour] a single head [. ] twice in the chariot drawn by full-grown horses. (XIII 5-8) 82 [Poseidon looked on a great triumph]—Berenice's horse win[ning] [ . ] in the races. And the sacred spring [of Peirene] near Acrocorinth, together with her father Ptolemy, marvelled at the Macedonian girl [decked in garlands]. For so many times, royal, in your own right, you had your house proclaimed victorious at Isthmus. (XIII 9-14) 83 This Thessalian steed, three times winner at Olympia in the race for single horses, [is dedicated here], sacred to the Scopadae: I, the first and only.
I 3 6-II 2) 9 [You chose] the lyre for your seal, Polycrates, the lyre of the singer [who pl]ayed [at your] feet. [. ] rays; and your hand [to]ok [. ] possession. (H 3-6) 10 . . cylinder ... of a torrent . . the craftsman's . . through them . . Nabataean king of Arabian cavalrymen 5 (II 7 -i6) ii No glint of silver on every side, nor is it [stone] that's mounted here, but Persian shell from the shores of the sea— call it mother-of-pearl: and cupped in the hollow of it Aglaia is depicted, [with the gleam of topaz].
XI 25-8) 73 Right from the starting line at Olympia, I ran like this, [needing no] spurs [and no encouraging]—pleasant was the weight I [carried] at full speed, [and] with a branch [. ] they crowned Trygaeus, [the son of . ]. (XI 29-32) 74 When at Delphi, contending in the chariot race, this filly nimbly pulled alongside a Thracian team and won by a nod, the drivers raised a great outcry, O Phoebus, before the regional umpires who suddenly dropped their staves to the ground and left 5 the charioteers to claim the crown by lot.