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About the course: This course is an introduction to ancient papyri (texts on ancient paper) that are not documentary. Literary texts will be the main focus, but educational, epistolary, and other non-documentary texts (e.g., paraliterary, magical) are also in view. By the end of the course, students will be comfortable using and deploying papyrological evidence, including text editions, secondary literature, and the papyri themselves.
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About the instructor: William A. Johnson is Professor of Classical Studies at Duke, with a range of specialities that includes ancient books and readers, ancient music, literary papyrology, and early Greek historiography. He has authored or edited five books and about 40 articles and reviews. His latest volumes are The Essential Herodotus (Oxford 2016) and The Oxford Handbook to the Second Sophistic (Oxford 2017). Follow the link to his web site by clicking here.
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The papyrus pictured at top is P.CtYBR 5018, a literary papyrus from the Yale collection, published by Johnson in 2016.
