Ancient Literacies

It begins in line 1 withSymposium, then in line 2 tells us ‘‘dialogues,’’
followed by the number kappa, or 20. There follow 20 lines, down to the

Philebusin line 22, and we can probably infer that each line represents the

contents of one papyrus roll and that the number 20 in line 2 is intended to

give the total number of rolls that follow in this section of the list. Almost

all of the titles represent works of Plato.^11 After thePhilebusin line 22

Otranto, no. 16¼PSILaur. inv. 19662v

Oxyrhynchus, 3rd centuryA.D. English equivalents at the right

Óıì½ðüŠóØï½íŠ Symposium
äØܺïªïØ Œ^0 dialogues 20
ÓïçØóôÞò Æ^0 Sophist 1
—æeò ̊ƺºØŒºÝÆ ª^0 Against Callicles 3
5 —æøôƪüæÆò Æ^0 Protagoras 1
̄PÿýäÅìïò Æ^0 Euthydemus 1
—ÆæìåíßäÅò ’íÜåÆæóØò Parmenides Anacharsis ×ÆæìßäÅò Charmides ºŒØ’ ØÜäÅò j ̧ýóØò Alcibiadesor(?) Lysis
10 ÌÝíøí ÌåíÝîåíïò Meno Menexenus
‘ÉððßÆØ â^0 ŒÆd ̄häÅìïò Hippias (MaiorandMinor) Eudemus
ÔßìÆØïò Timaeus
—ïºØôØŒüò Politicus
̊æÆôýºïò Cratylus
15 ºŒØ’ ØÜäðÅòÞ Alcibiades ÖߺÅïò Philebus ÖÆßäøí Phaedo ̧ÜåÅò Laches ’ºŒØØÜäÅò Alcibiades
20 ˆïæªßÆò Gorgias
—æøôƪüæÆò Protagoras
ÖߺÅïò Philebus

̨åíïçøðíôïòÞ—ÆØäðåßÆòÞÅ^0 Xenophon’s(Cyro)paedia 8
’íIÆóØò Anabasis 25 ’ªÅóߺÆïò Agesilaus
̊ıíŪåôØŒðüòÞ Cynegeticus
Óıì½ðüŠóØïí Sym[po]sium
‘ˇìÞæïı ‹óÆ å•æßóŒðåôÆØÞ Of Homer, as much as is found
ÌåíÜíäðæïıÞ‹óÆ å•æßóðŒåôÆØÞ Of Menander, as much as is found
30 ̄PæØðßäïı ‹óÆ å•æßóŒðåôÆØÞ Of Euripides, as much as is found
’`æ½ØóôŠïçÜðíïıòÞ½ Of Ar[ist]ophanes
:½...ŠåØíïı Of [... ]inus
[....] [...]
½...:Š:Øíïı Of [... ]inus

11. There are exceptions, all of them much discussed. In line 7, theAnacharsisis a work
    of the second centuryA.D. satirist Lucian, and in line 11 theEudemusis by Aristotle. These
    may have been volumes with works written on both sides of the roll, and this may be the case
    also with the roll mentioned in line 10. For full discussions, see Puglia 1996, 56 8.

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