Plutarch's Sympotic Forge and a Variant Reading in P.Oxy. LXXVIII 5156

James Brusuelas; Chiara Meccariello

doi:10.1515/apf-2015-0004

Plutarch's Sympotic Forge and a Variant Reading in P.Oxy. LXXVIII 5156

James Brusuelas, Chiara Meccariello

Modern and Classic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

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P.Oxy. LXVIII 5156, a second century witness to Plutarch's Quaestiones Convivales, reads instead of the mediaeval manuscripts' at 660 c 7. The passage suggests a parallel between the effect of conversation on wine drinking and that of marble on heated iron during a puzzling metallurgical process. In this paper we identify and explain this process in the context of ancient ironworking technology, and discuss the two readings and their implications for the understanding of the simile.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	37-52
Number of pages	16
Journal	Archiv fur Papyrusforschung und Verwandte Gebiete
Volume	61
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1515/apf-2015-0004
State	Published - Sep 1 2015

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simile

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