Voorsmaakje
In 1905, during some restoration works in a private house in the Egyptian village of Kom Ishgaw, around seventy kilometres south of the city of Asyut, a crevice in a wall disclosed a large number of papyrus scrolls. The archaeological excavations that followed this fortuitous discovery brought to light a jar full of papyri. On top of the jar, as to secure its contents, there was a codex made of four lost comedies by Menander. The whole documentation belonged to a single family: the private archive of Dioscorus of Aphrodite was then discovered.
The approximately 650 documents that compose the archive make it the largest one from Late Antiquity. Written in Greek and Coptic, they range from private letters to petitions, imperial rescripts, rent contracts, and tax receipts. But they also include literary pieces – some of them, from the pen of Dioscorus himself! Through a close examination of the archive, we will retrace the lives and sorrows of the inhabitants of the village of Aphrodite, as well as of its headman Dioscorus, who is today infamously known as “the worst poet of Antiquity”.
Over de spreker
Yasmine Amory was trained in Classics at the University of Florence and at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris), where she received her Master’s degree (2014). She obtained her PhD title at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in 2018 with a dissertation on the Greek letters of the archive of Dioscorus of Aphrodite, the richest papyrological archive from Byzantine age. After joining Ghent University as a post-doctoral research fellow within the ERC project “Everyday writing in Graeco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt (I – VIII AD). A socio-semiotic study of communicative variation”, she is now leading a project on politeness theory and multimodality in Greek documentary papyri (Special Research Fund, 2021-2024).
Praktische informatie
Wanneer? woensdag 22 februari 2023, om 19u30
Waar? leslokaal 0.4 (Blandijnberg 2, 9000 Gent)
Prijs? gratis voor leden van het Griekenlandcentrum, UGent studenten (m.u.v. PhD-studenten) en scholieren. Anderen betalen €5.
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