Virtual Exhibition

Scribes and Scholars

Hesiod, Catalogue of Women
Alcman, Partheneia
Sappho
Ibycus
Simonides, Elegies
Aeschylus, Dictyulci: satyr-drama
Critical marks: Plato, Phaedo
Inept corrections: Plato, Phaedrus
Revision and collation: Aeschines, In Ctesiphontem
Menander, Misoumenos
Callimachus, Aetia prologue
Drifting lines: Duris?, History of Sicily
An ancient sex manual: Philaenis, The Art of Love
List of Epigrams
Elegy on Gods and their Boy Loves: Hadrian and Antinoos?
The Empire Writes Back: Oracle of the Potter
A Greek Satyricon?: Iolaus Romance
New Testament: Jude 4-5, 7-8
‘Demetrius the bookseller has them’: a reader writes
Book Titles and Tags:
- Example 1: Tryphon, On the Dialect of the Laconians
- Example 2: Hermarchus, In Empedoclem IX
- Example 3: Commentary on Simonidea
- Example 4: Commentary on Aristophanea
- Example 5: A reader’s memo?: Homer, Iliad 2 + month
Textbook on mythology
Latin texts:
- Gaius, Institutiones IV
- Virgil, Aeneid XI: a scribe’s exercise
Scribes practising various styles