Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Abbreviations and Conventions
Notes on Contributors
Richard Rutherford and Dirk Obbink: Introduction
1: Dirk Obbink: Vanishing Conjecture: The Recovery of Lost Books from Aristotle to Eco
2: M. L. West: Pindar as a Man of Letters
3: S. R. West: The Papyri of Herodotus
4: Richard Rutherford: The Use and Abuse of Irony
5: Adrian Hollis: Greek Letters in Hellenistic Bactria
6: Menander and his Rivals: New Light from the Comic Adespota on Papyria
7: Eric Handley: The Rediscovery of Menander
8: Colin Austin: My Daughter and her Dowry : Smikrines in Menander s Epitrepontes
9: Annette Harder: More Facts from Fragments
10: Susan Stephens: Remapping the Mediterranean: The Argo Adventure in Apollonius and Callimachus
11: Giulio Massimilla: Theudotus of Lipara (Callimachus, fr. 93 Pf.)
12: Richard Hunter: The Reputation of Callimachus
13: Gregory Hutchinson: Telling Tales: Ovid s Metamorphoses and Callimachus
14: Michael Winterbottom: On Ancient Prose Rhythm: The Story of the Dichoreus
15: Christoph Riedweg: Alexander of Aphrodisias, De prouidentia: Greek Fragments and Arabic Versions
16: Albert Henrichs: Missing Pages: Papyrology, Genre, and the Greek Novel
Bibliography of Peter Parsons
Indexes

About the Author

Dirk Obbink has held positions at Columbia and Ann Arbor. He was appointed University Lecturer in Papyrology in 1995 and has taught in Oxford since. Richard Rutherford has been Tutor at Christ Church College, Oxford, since 1982.