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Title Culture in pieces : essays on ancient texts in honour of Peter Parsons / edited by Dirk Obbink and Richard Rutherford.

Publication Info. Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 338 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Summary This volume originated in a conference of the same title, held in Oxford in September 2006, to celebrate the 70th birthday of Peter Parsons, Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford from 1989 to 2003. The contributors, who are former pupils, colleagues or collaborators with Peter Parsons, share a deep admiration for him and his work. Peter Parsons has, throughout his career, been engaged in research on newly discovered papyrus texts, and such texts play an important part in this volume'sdiscussions. He has also constantly sought to use these texts to illuminate the literary and cultural history of.
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Subject Classical philology -- Congresses.
Classical philology.
Classical literature -- Manuscripts -- Congresses.
Classical literature -- Manuscripts.
Classical literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Festschriften.
Festschriften.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Parsons, P. J.
Obbink, Dirk.
Rutherford, R. B.
Other Form: Print version: Culture in pieces. Oxford : Oxford University Press, ©2011 0199292019 (OCoLC)723450957
ISBN 9780191558887 (electronic book)
0191558885 (electronic book)
0199292019
9780199292011