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A Ptolemaic ‘Speculum Principis' in P.Berol. inv. 13045, A I-III?

The paper intends to shed light on the first three columns of what is usually referred to as the Demades papyrus, which contain the remains of an eulogy of Ptolemaic monarchy. Although found in the necropolis of Βουσῖρις ἐν τῷ Ἡρακλεοπολίτῃ, P.Berol. inv. 13045 is supposed to have been written in Alexandria and dates to the end of the second century BC. The content of the fragment, which has received scarce critical attention since the editio princeps (1923), can be summarized as follows: aft...

Plethon's Opuscula de historia Graeca and Bruni's Commentarium rerum Graecarum: Rewriting Greek History Between the Byzantine and the Latin Renaissance

The purpose of the paper is twofold. First, it tries to compare Plethon’s Opuscula de historia Graeca, which consist of two texts in the codex Marcianus Graecus 406 that were edited in 1989 by Enrico V. Maltese, to Bruni’s Commentarium rerum Graecarum (1439), a Latin reworking of Xenophon’s Hellenica, which still lacks a critical edition. In particular, this comparison is possible because the two works complement each other from a chronological point of view and are based on the same methodol...