Latin Texts on Papyrus and the Study of Classics

MARIA CHIARA SCAPPATICCIO is Full Professor of Latin Language and Literature at the Università di Napoli 'Federico II', where she was also Principal Investigator for the European Research Council-funded project PLATINUM (Papyri and Latin Texts: Insights and Updated Methodologies. Towards a Philological, Literary and Historical Approach to Latin Papyri – ERC-StG 2014 no. 636983). Her books include Artes grammaticae in frammenti. I testi grammaticali latini e bilingui su papiro: edizione commentate (2015) and Fabellae. Frammenti di favole latine e bilingui greco-latine di traduzione diretta (II-IV d.C.) (2017). She is the editor of The Corpus of Latin Texts on Papyrus (Cambridge, 2024).

• Latin Texts on Papyrus: A Project, Its Corpus, and the Future of Research. I. The Literary Perspective, II. The Documentary Perspective M. C. Scappaticcio and L. C. Colella; Part I. Philological and Literary Insights: 1. The papyri of Terence and the Latin grammatical tradition F. Biville; 2. Latin gnomic literature in light of P. Mich. VII 430 (= CLTP IB.20) A. S. Gitner; 3. Medical or culinary recipes? On the technical prose of a first-century roll A. Garcea; 4. P. Hamb. II 167 recto: drama (in prose?) C. Panayotakis; 5. The Latin papyri from the Herculaneum library: new results and fresh perspectives T. Dorandi; 6. Editing the Carmen de Bello Aegyptiaco for the CLTP: new results and further perspectives V. Piano; 7. Virgilian Centos and Papyri Vergilianae P. Paolucci; 8. 'Varus, give me back my … money!' Marginal notes on the Hadrianus S. Rocchi; Part II. Philological and Linguistic Insights: 9. From Roman Egypt to the Renaissance: the evolution of the Celtis glossary (part 1) E. Dickey; 10. From Roman Egypt to the Renaissance: the evolution of the Celtis glossary (part 2) R. Ferri; 11. Latin in Roman soldiers' and veterans' private documents: selected case studies A. Pezzella; 12. The relevance of the Italian papyri to the study of late Latin and the emergence of the Romance vernaculars R. Sornicola; 13. On the Latin–Arabic bilingual papyrus, British Library inv. 3124: the 'Italian' connection G. D'Alessio; 14. Allography in Latin ostraca (Assenamat, Gigthi, Bu Njem): linguistic analysis of Paleo-Amazigh personal names and external implications A. Bernini; 15. Latin ostraca from Tripolitania C. Múrcia Sanchez; Part III. Palaeographic Insights: 16. The Latin papyri and the history of writing, or about their contribution to the formation of a scientific vocabulary in palaeography T. De Robertis; 17. Some reflections on the presence of accents in the Montserrat Cicero's in Catilinam ii A. Nodar; 18. A Survey on abbreviating (and punctuation) signs in Latin documentary papyri, ostraka and tablets from Roman Africa and the East (BCE I–VII CE) G. Iovine; 19. Rethinking the evidence for Latin shorthand in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages A. Ghignoli; Part IV. Juridical and Historical Insights: 20. Ancient jurists and Latin papyri F. Nasti; 21. The contribution of the CLTP to the study of Roman justice M. Pedone; 22. Julio-Claudian procedural reforms and imperial constitutions in the light of BGU II 611 and BGU II 628 P. Buongiorno; 23. Marcus Aper and the ala Apriana L. Capponi; 24. Did a fiscus barbaricus ever exist? Remarks on P.Ital. 1 (AD 445–446) D. Internullo.

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