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Tebtunis Papyri - The Land Survey

The editors of the The Tebtunis Papyri included translations in the notes. The passage you asked about is this one: ο[ἷ]ς ἐπικεχώρηται κατὰ τὰ περὶ αὐτῶν ἰδίαι πρ[οστ]εταγμέ[να] ἔχειν οἵους ποτὲ ...
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Euripides - Were his Argonautical works considered canon?

In the story of the Argonauts, yes, Euripides' Medea did indeed influence later writers. As Andrew Zissos puts it in his commentary of Argonautica I (Oxford, 2008), "Euripides' focus on Jason's ...
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Euripides - mystai or evidence of higher-ranked status?

The claim that Euripides was “a torchbearer in the rites of Apollo Zosterius” comes, like many other biographical claims, from a short Life or Vita that was prefixed to the Byzantine manuscripts of ...
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