and recycling, 257, 257n 63
papyrus fragments
as evidence of book collections, 233 234,
248, 250 251
found in Egypt and Herculaneum,
249 250t
found in trash dumps, 247 248, 247n 42
See alsoOxyrhynchus
paradox, 103 104
paradoxography, 102 103
Paradoxos Historia(The NeworStrange
History) (Ptolemaius Chennus),
108 n 26
Parthenius, 108
Parthian Monument (Ephesos), 83, 83n 48
Pasion, 17
Passer(Catullus), 167n 7
patron, 144, 152 153, 175, 179 184
Pech Maho lead tablet, 26 28
Pelargoi, 241
pepaideumenoi
and correct speech, 107 108
and paradoxography, 102, 103, 111
Plutarch’sSympotic Questionsas
handbook for, 110
use of anecdote by, 106
perceptual iconicity, 122
performance, 187n2, 349
performative culture, 190 191
Pergamon, 77n 27
Persius, 206, 206n 77
Perugia, 118n
Petronius, 346
Phainomena(Aratus), 130 131
Phesinus, Tiberius Claudius, 77
Philebus(Plato), 235
Philodemus, 257n61, 261
philological investigation, 322, 326
philosophy, 340, 349
Philostratus, 86n59, 87, 99 100
Erotic Letters, 110
Lives of the Sophists,104, 105 108
Phoenicia
alphabet of, 25, 334
writing in, 334
Phrynichus, 31
Pictor, Fabius, 275
picture writing, 392
Pinakes(Callimachus), 243n 30
pinakion, 23
Pindar, 346
in booklists, 240n20, 244n 34
in Grenfell and Hunt’s finds, 257n62,
257 n63, 258, 260
Piso, Calpurnius,Catasterismi, 204 n 67
Plato, 214n119, 346
on Aristotle as ‘‘the Reader,’’ 145n 7
in booklists, 235, 236 237, 240n 20
and distrust of written word, 165n 2
Gorgias,236 237
in Grenfell and Hunt’s finds, 257n62,
257 n65, 258, 259, 259n72, 260
Laws, 36 n 49
Philebus, 235
Republic, 258
Symposium,109 110, 235, 246
Plautus, 173n 17
Casina, 320
Pseudolus, 129
Pliny the Elder, 346
on lucubration, 324
on papyrus, 164, 171n 11
use oflectorby, 200, 200n 48
Pliny the Younger, 346
on books, 207, 207n81, 215 217,
215 n 121
and public performance of poetry, 202n 55
and reading, 197 198, 198n37, 199 200,
207, 208n85, 213, 215 217, 224n 155
on recitations, 202n57, 202n58,
203 204, 203n62, 204n65, 207 209,
225 n162, 283n 45
Plutarch, 329n 15
and anecdote, 109 110
and essays on oral speech, 99
Life of Lucullus, 283
Lives, 110
and paradoxy, 103
on poor Latinity, 104n 21
Sympotic Questions,109 110
Plutus, 241
poet
career of determined by destiny of book,
153 155
goal of to be recopied and preserved,
155 156
immortality of through book, 160 162,
164 165, 168n10, 183, 184
poetic culture, 148
poetry, 187, 212, 349
aural element of, 192
circulation of in books, 187 188,
206 208, 212 215, 219
and oral performance, 187, 188, 192n19,
204 205, 204n67 204n 69
and private reading, 187 188
and reading, 187 188, 213, 224 225,
224 n 155
and reading aloud, 201 202, 204n 69
Polemon of Smyrna, 86n 59General Index 425