Greek grammatical learning papyri
Typology, function and formats
This contribution offers an attempt at defining the genre
of grammatical school papyri, on the basis of a corpus of some 65
relevant papyri, roughly ranging from the 1st to the 8th century AD.
After a brief overview of the heuristic and methodological state of
the art, we offer a content-based typology of the grammatical
papyri, as forming part of the ancient schooling system.
Subsequently we discuss the function and the general characteristics
of the various text types, before dealing in greater detail with the
papyri containing a technê grammatikê.
Article outline
- 1.Objectives
- 2.The historiographical study of grammatical papyri: Some
prolegomena
- 3.Research tools: A brief overview
- 4.“Grammatical learning texts”: A more integrative
designation
- 5.The documentation: A content-based typology
- 6.Function and general contents of the “grammatical learning
papyri”
- 7.A closer look at the technai-papyri
- 8.Concluding remarks
-
Acknowledgements
-
Notes
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