The Age of Palladas

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ID10290479
AuthorsLuca Benelli (1 Universität zu Köln, Philosophische Fakultät, Institut für Altertumskunde [email protected], corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume69
Issue6
Pages978-1007
Publication date2016-04-20
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMnemosyne (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0026-7074 • E-ISSN: 1568-525X
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/1568525x-12341898
OpenAlexW2528664136
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited14

In recent articles and contributions, Kevin W. Wilkinson has identified some clues, in the text of several epigrams by Palladas of Alexandria, which, in his view, enable us to date this epigrammatic poet back to the age of Constantine. By analysing a number of passages, Wilkinson backdates Palladas by about sixty years, possibly as far back as a century. He tries to prove this new chronological reconstruction with the help of a new papyrus find, which he himself has published and which he would like to attribute to Palladas. There is no evidence that the Yale Papyrus (P. Ct. ybr Inv. 4000) is really a codex with epigrams by Palladas. As a result, its dating is still uncertain and the traditional date ascribed to Palladas (between the end of the 4th and the beginning of the 5th century ad ) is still the most logical, and is confirmed by a long series of epigrams attributed to the Alexandrian poet in the Greek Anthology

Art · Literature · Papyrus · Reflexive pronoun · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · Historical and Linguistic Studies · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Philosophy

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