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History of Linguistics 2017: Selected papers from the 14th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, (ICHoLS 14), Paris, 28 August – 1 September
Edited by Émilie Aussant and Jean-Michel Fortis
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences 127] 2020
► pp. 173–188

Greek grammatical learning papyri

Typology, function and formats

| University of Leuven
| University of Leuven
| University of Leuven

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.

Keywords: Ancient Greek grammar, morphological exercises, papyri (grammatical ‒), schooling system (in Antiquity), 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
  • References
Published online: 20 May 2020
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