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Hexameters beyond the canon: new poetry on papyri from Roman and Byzantine Egypt

超越正典的六音步：罗马和拜占庭埃及纸莎草新诗

基本信息

批准号：
AH/W003554/1
负责人：
Lucia Prauscello
金额：
$ 103.97万
依托单位：
University of Oxford
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2022
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2022 至无数据
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FW003554%2F1
关键词：
Hexameters beyond canon new poetry

项目摘要

Existing literary histories of ancient Greek literature tend to focus almost exclusively on 'canonical' authors, dividing Christian from pagan literature and thus obscuring a number of key features. The project aims at correcting this perspective by studying the diffusion and circulation of non-canonical Greek hexameter poetry within the multilingual and multicultural context of Roman Egypt from the 1st to the 6th century CE. This is the first systematic attempt at charting the textual, cultural and historical dynamics of a rich but understudied body of occasional, use-oriented literature, commonly known as Gebrauchsliteratur. This functional poetry covers a wide range of genres over a period of time that saw momentous changes in the cultural, political and religious scene of Roman Egypt. Our vantage point will be that of Oxyrhynchus, a provincial metropolis in middle Egypt, that is, outside the main centres of power (Rome, Alexandria, Constantinople, Antioch). The hexameter was considered in antiquity, both in classical and post-classical times, as the most illustrious literary form of communication. It was reclaimed and adopted for functional purposes at all levels of society, from the high echelons and grandees to everyday people commemorating local events, private and public, from amateurs to wandering poets, from teachers to civil servants willing to please some superior, and more or less literate soldiers recording their social aspirations etc. The varied and multiform nature of these texts allows us to recover an entire strand of literature otherwise ignored by the official high culture: it provides a rare glimpse of the everyday cultural life of the time from a geographically peripheral perspective. The edition, on-line and in print, of 120 unpublished papyri of new hexameter poetry will substantially increase the existing body of evidence and will help us offer an interpretative framework for its cultural-historical analysis (the social functions of occasional poetry at large). To map the development over time of this mid-to-low-brow production enables us to see how traditional genres adapted to respond to the changed conditions of literary production. Comparison of this type of poetry with its closer analogue, the contemporary epigraphic production (metrical inscriptions and graffiti) of the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire is another important step towards a more comprehensive understanding of this type of literature and its literary, cultural and social value. As well as scholarly publications (editions, online and in print of the new papyri; a multi-authored monograph; peer-reviewed articles), the project will have a substantial web presence, containing materials for public use (including podcasts) and a user-friendly, searchable version of the database, all in open-access. The impact beyond the academy will thus be primarily cultural: the most transformative step will be to make this neglected material open and accessible to the lay-public. To promote this wider impact the project envisages: (i) the creation of an engaging, outward-facing website containing audio and video-recordings, images, mini-essays, excerpts from the poems and links and a freely accessible database; (ii) a series of schools talks, arranged via a partnership with the Iris Project, targeted at promoting Classics in state schools. As physical written artefacts from the distant past, papyri attract immediate attention and have the ability to connect school children concretely and vividly with the ancient world; (iii) an exhibition in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, showcasing some of the new material. Finally, but equally importantly for the educative ethos of the project, some of the unpublished material will be made available for study to undergraduate and graduate students, who will thus learn the technicalities but also the excitement of hands-on scholarship.

现有的古希腊文学史倾向于几乎完全集中在“规范”作者，将基督教文学与异教文学区分开来，从而模糊了一些关键特征。该项目旨在通过研究从公元1世纪到公元6世纪罗马埃及的多语言和多元文化背景下非规范希腊六步诗的传播和流通来纠正这种观点。这是第一次系统地尝试绘制文本，文化和历史动态的丰富，但研究不足的机构偶尔，使用为导向的文学，俗称Gebrauchsliteratur。这种功能性诗歌涵盖了一段时间内，在罗马埃及的文化，政治和宗教场景发生了重大变化的各种体裁。我们的Vantage位置将是Oxyrhynchus，一个省级大都会在埃及中部，也就是说，以外的主要权力中心（罗马，亚历山大，君士坦丁堡，安提阿）。六步格在古代，无论是古典时代还是后古典时代，都被认为是最杰出的文学交流形式。它被社会各阶层重新利用并用于功能目的，从高层和显贵到纪念当地事件的普通人，私人和公共，从业余爱好者到流浪诗人，从教师到愿意取悦某些上级的公务员，或多或少有文化的士兵记录他们的社会愿望等。这些文本的多样性和多样性使我们能够恢复一个完整的链被官方高雅文化所忽视的文学：它从地理边缘的角度提供了对当时日常文化生活的罕见一瞥。在线和印刷版的120个未出版的新六步诗纸莎草纸将大大增加现有的证据，并将帮助我们提供一个解释框架，其文化历史分析（偶尔诗歌的社会功能）。绘制这种中低级作品随时间的发展，使我们能够看到传统类型如何适应文学生产条件的变化。将这种类型的诗歌与其更接近的类似物进行比较，罗马帝国东部省份的当代金石作品（格律铭文和涂鸦）是更全面地理解这种类型的文学及其文学，文化和社会价值的另一个重要步骤。除了学术出版物（新纸莎草纸的在线版和印刷版;多人撰写的专著;同行评审的文章）外，该项目还将有大量的网络存在，其中载有供公众使用的材料（包括播客）和一个方便用户的可搜索版本的数据库，所有这些都是开放的。因此，学院之外的影响将主要是文化方面的：最具变革性的一步将是使这一被忽视的材料向公众开放和开放。为了扩大这一影响，该项目设想：（i）创建一个吸引人的、面向外部的网站，其中包括音频和视频记录、图像、短文、诗歌摘录和链接以及一个可免费访问的数据库;（ii）通过与Iris项目合作安排一系列学校讲座，旨在公立学校推广经典。作为遥远过去的实物书面文物，纸草引起了人们的立即关注，并有能力将学童与古代世界具体而生动地联系起来;（iii）牛津大学博德利图书馆的展览，展示了一些新材料。最后，但同样重要的是该项目的教育精神，一些未发表的材料将提供给本科生和研究生学习，他们将因此学习技术细节，但也兴奋的动手奖学金。