The Atheism of Epicurus

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Resurrecting Early Christian Lives: Digging in Papyri in a Digital Age

This project investigated ancient papyri relevant to the rise of early Christianity within the multi-cultural context of Greco-Roman Egypt. Specifically it examined in detail the complex networks of identity and authority and how Christians saw their new religion as part of their other identities (Greek, Egyptian, Roman, merchant, monk). The rich resource of ancient data came from papyrus documents unearthed from the garbage dumps around the outskirts of Bahnasa in Egypt, known in antiquity as Oxyrhynchus. Building on data from the crowd-sourced transcriptions of the Ancient Lives project, they data mined papyri relevant to early Christianity. To increase the range of their dataset, they developed a transcription tool for Coptic, the final stage of the indigenous language of Egypt, notably used by Christians. They implemented a Coptic language version of Ancient Lives, allowing for the crowd-sourced transcription of these poorly known and unpublished texts, and, for Greek and Coptic texts, developed a unique mining tool for the Ancient Lives database

The Cup of Song: Studies on Poetry and the Symposion

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Pindar's Prosodia: introduction, text, and commentary to selected fragments

This dissertation examines the surviving remains of the two books of Pindar’s Prosodia. The introduction falls into four parts. The first is concerned with gathering the evidence for the books, through a review of their ancient testimonia (Chapter 1) and of the indirect and direct transmission of their fragments (Chapter 2); the second is concerned with the prosodion as a poetic genre, with some introductory remarks (Chapter 3) followed by an investigation of the collected evidence for the notion of prosodion in describing poetic texts (Chapter 4) and in later scholarship and generic theory (Chapter 5); the third combines the results of the first two into an analysis of the surviving fragments of Pindar’s Prosodia and an inquiry on the generic principles that shaped the collection (Chapter 6); the fourth consists of a descriptive catalogue of the papyrus manuscripts that contribute to the text of Pindar’s Prosodia (Chapter 7). The critical text of the eighteen main fragments and groups of fragments is followed by an introduction and line-by-line commentary to six of them, nos. 1, 2, 3, 5, *6, and *7 (= fr. 89 Snell-Maehler and ‘Paeans’ 14, 15, 6.123-183, 17, and 18).This thesis is not currently available in ORA