Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Volume LXXXII

edited with translations and notes by N. Gonis, F. Maltomini, W. B. Henry and S. Slattery

Book cover: Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Volume LXXXII

Extent: 211 pages

Publisher: Egypt Exploration Society

Subjects: Ancient Egypt

Series: Graeco-Roman Memoirs

Series volume number: 103

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(July 2016)

ISBN: 9780856982309

Price: $130.00

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This volume features the largest collection of magical papyri in 25 years, offering insights into illness treatment and attraction practices. It also includes theological texts (Philo), classical works (Menander, Theocritus, Euclid, Polybius, Plutarch), and a new text by Sophocles.


The core of this volume is the biggest concentration of magical papyri published in some 25 years, giving a fascinating insight into approaches to averting and treating illnesses, and attracting a partner. Further material contains theological texts (Philo), extant classical texts (Menander, Theocritus, Euclid, Polybius, Plutarch), and a new classical text (Sophokles).

  • Edited by N Gonis
  • Edited by W B Henry
  • Edited by F. Maltomini
  • Edited by S. Slattery

"The volume is carefully and elegantly typeset and furnished with useful indices and plates, illustrating the literary and para-literary texts, the drawing, and selected documents... It remains only to congratulate the editors and the Egypt Exploration Society on an achievement that will surely advance the understanding of Greek literature, and of society in Roman and Byzantine Egypt and its Mediterranean surroundings." --Michael Zellmann-Rohrer, Oxford, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2017.06.39