How Long to Read New Literary Papyri from the Michigan Collection

How Long Does it Take to Read New Literary Papyri from the Michigan Collection?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 26 minutes to read New Literary Papyri from the Michigan Collection by C. Michael Sampson

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

New texts from Greek antiquity continue to emerge on scraps of papyrus from the sands of Egypt, not only adding to the surviving corpus of classical and Hellenistic literature, but also occasionally offering a glimpse into how these poems were studied in antiquity. New Literary Papyri from the Michigan Collection: Mythographic Lyric and a Catalogue of Poetic First Lines presents three such new texts: an innovative lyric poem on the Trojan cycle, a scholarly anthology of lyric verses, and a brief but enigmatic third text. Cassandra Borges and C. Michael Sampson offer the original Greek text of these pieces, along with their scholarly commentary, analyzing their features in a variety of contexts-historical, cultural, poetic, mythological, religious, and scholarly. The fragments collected here are of considerable antiquity (late third to second century BCE) a fact that is significant inasmuch as it places them among the oldest Greek papyri, but all the more so because in this period, a scholarly community was thriving in Ptolemaic Alexandria, the political and cultural capital of Hellenistic Egypt. The fragments bear witness to that scholarly activity: not only is their anthology of poetic verses consistent with other scholarly selections, but the very survival of these texts may well be at least partially indebted to the work of the Alexandrians in studying and propagating Greek literature in Egypt. This edition supplements the 1970s work of Reinhold Merkelbach and Denys Page. Recent digitizing for the APIS project revealed a previously unsuspected join with other material, however, which alone warrants a new, comprehensive edition and analysis.

How long is New Literary Papyri from the Michigan Collection?

New Literary Papyri from the Michigan Collection by C. Michael Sampson is 199 pages long, and a total of 51,541 words.

This makes it 67% the length of the average book. It also has 63% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read New Literary Papyri from the Michigan Collection Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 41 minutes to read New Literary Papyri from the Michigan Collection aloud.

What Reading Level is New Literary Papyri from the Michigan Collection?

New Literary Papyri from the Michigan Collection is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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