The Pillars of the Earth

 
Last night we watched the first two episodes of The Pillars of the Earth. They were fantastic. The story takes place in England during the time after the death of Henry I (1068-1135) and the civil war between Stephen and the Empress Matilda (Maud).¹ This is near the end of my favorite period of history—the so-called dark ages.

Judging by the first two episodes, the show does a pretty good job of capturing the flavor of the era except that everyone looks far too healthy and beautiful. They all have good teeth.



Here's a brief history.

Henry I (1068-1135) is the King of England [Henry Beauclerc] who dies at the beginning of the series. He was the youngest son of William the Conqueror and took the throne of England (and the Duchy of Normandy) from his older brothers after much fighting.

Henry had two surviving legitimate children: Matilda (1102-1167) and his heir William Adelin (1103-1120). William died when he was only 17 years old when The White Ship sank on Nov. 25, 1120 during a voyage from France back to England. The sinking of the White Ship is the opening scene of the movie. (The ship set sail at night and smashed into a rock. Most of the crew and passengers were drunk. Everyone died of exposure.)

Matilda married Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor, when she was 13 years old and she became known as Empress Matilda at that point. She returned to England when her husband, Henry V, died in 1125. In the movie she is depicted as a young girl who is present when the King learns of his son's death on the White Ship. In fact, she was already 18 years old and married to the Holy Roman Emperor when the ship went down.

Empress Matilda, known as Maud in the movie, married Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou in 1128. They had a son who eventually becomes Henry II of England and founds the Plantagenet dynasty. (Oops, I just gave away the ending! )

Henry I tried to ensure that his daughter Empress Matilda (Maud) would become Queen of England on his death but that didn't work out. The Norman aristocracy were not prepared to accept a woman as ruler and they helped install Stephen of Blois (1096-1154) as King of England in 1135. Stephen was the son of Adela of Normandy, daughter of William the Conqueror.

Henry I had about two dozen illegitimate children by many different women. Several of them drowned when the White Ship went down. His oldest "bastard" son was Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester (1090-1147). Robert is depicted in the movie as a strong supporter of Maud right from the beginning but the real history is much more complicated. He initially supported Stephen but later on he was the most important leader of the civil war that became known as The Anarchy.

Elizabeth, Princess of England is another of Henry's illegitimate children. She married Fergus, Lord of Galloway, ancestors of the Stewarts of Scotland.².

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1. I love it when they make movies of my relatives! I am a descendant of Andrew Ward (1597-1659) of Fairfield Connecticut who traces his ancestry back to William de Longespee (1152-1206) the illegitimate son of Henry II of England (1133-1189). [My Family and Other Emperors]. Henry II is Maud's baby in the opening episodes of the movie. UPDATE: Turns out I am NOT related to Andrew Ward after all! But I do count Geoffrey Plantagenet and Matilda as ancestors through Henry II to my Scottish Stewart ancestors.

2. I am also a descendant, via the Stewarts of Perthshire, from Elizabeth.

F. Morelli, L'archivio di Senouthios anystes e testi connessi (CPR XXX)

L'archivio di Senouthios anystes e testi connessi
Lettere e documenti per la costruzione di una capitale
[The Construction of a Capital]
Ed. by Morelli, Federico
2010 | Hardcover | Euro [D] 149.95 / for USA, Canada, Mexico US$ 210.00. *
ISBN 978-3-11-022887-8
Series: Corpus Papyrorum Raineri (CPR) 30


Blurb:
The volume contains the edition of 32 Greek papyrus texts, together with a commentary and translation, from the recently identified Senouthios archive. It consists of correspondence between high-ranking officials from Hermopolites in the first years after the Arabic conquest of Egypt. The letters deal with the requisitions for the erection of the new Egyptian capital of al-Fustât (“Old Cairo”), and throw light on aspects which are otherwise scarcely documented, such as the relationship between Christians and Muslims, or the reaction of the population to the demands of the new rulers. A second volume is in preparation.

Bouillon

 
On the drive back from Reims to Brussels we stopped for dinner in Bouillon. We had a wonderful meal in a restaurant on the bank of the river. Here's me and my three "girls."

Zoë and her grandmother (Mamère) went off in search of the prince. The "prince" is Godfrey of Bouillon (~1060-1100) one of the leaders of the First Crusade. He was the first ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem (1099). Bouillon was an important place in the Middle Ages. The ruins of the castle attest to its glory days.

Godfrey was the son of Eustace II, Count of Boulogne and Ida of Lorraine. Eustace II fought with William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings. His father was Eustace I, Count of Boulogne who married Matilda of Leuven (Louvain). (She was the daughter of Lambert I, Count of Leuven (~950-1015). We have many Belgian ancestors.)

Eustace I and Matilda are Zoë's direct ancestors via their other son Lambert II, Count of Lens (1025-1054). We descend from his daughter Judith of Lens whose mother (wife of Lambert II) was Adelaide of Normandy, sister of William the Conqueror.

The majority of people reading this blog are also descendants of these people. You just don't know it.

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Reims

 
When we were in Europe, we took a trip to Reims in Northeastern France. It's a 2.5 hour drive from Brussels where we were visiting my granddaughter Zoë (and her parents).

Reims is in the heart of champagne country and the main purpose of our visit was to see the winery of Veuve Clicquot, our favorite champagne. The cellars are a maze of limestone quarries under the city. After the tour there was free champagne! Zoë loved the champagne.


The other, less important, site in Reims is the cathedral where dozens of French kings were crowned. One of them was Charles VII, crowned on July 17, 1429 after the city had surrendered to Jeanne d'Arc and her army the day before. The cathedral is beautiful but I was struck by the statue of Joan in front of the cathedral. Zoë liked her too.


Someday I'd like to visit Rouen where Joan of Arc was burned as a heretic by her English captors.

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National Academies: Conceptual Framework for New Science Education Standards

 
The National Research Council of the National Academies (USA) has published a draft proposal of Core Ideas in science [Standards Framework Preliminary Draft]. These are supposed to serve as guidelines for educating students about science. One of the Core Ideas in Life Sciences is evolution. Here's the complete description.

Biological evolution explains both the unity and diversity of species. Biological evolution results from the interactions of (1) the potential for a species to increase its members, (2) the genetic variation of individuals within a species due to mutations and recombinations of genes, (3) a finite supply of the resources required for individuals to survive and reproduce, and (4) the ensuing selection by the environment of those organisms better able to survive and reproduce. Organic evolution, and the net result of speciation minus extinction, has led to the planet’s biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Sustaining biodiversity is essential for the maintenance and enhancement of the human population’s quality of life.

The fossil record provides evidence of different life forms at different periods of geological history. This evidence supports the idea that newer life forms descended from older life forms, a phenomenon that Darwin aptly called “descent with modification”. DNA provides further evidence for lines of descent from ancestral species to later-appearing species.

Genetic variation of individuals within a species gives some individuals an advantage to survive and reproduce in the conditions of their environment. This leads to the predominance of certain inherited traits within a varied population. When an environment changes, there is a subsequent change in the supply of resources or in the challenges imposed by abiotic and biotic factors of the environment. This results in selective pressures that influence the survival and reproduction of organisms and which lead to adaptations, that is to changes in the traits of survivors within populations, and to extinction of species unable to adapt to such changes. Mutations most often produce non-viable individuals, but, infrequently, can introduce new traits within a population that offer survival advantages. Many such changes, along with reproductive isolation and the selective pressures from the environment can lead to the development of adaptations and, eventually, to distinct new species.

Biodiversity – the diversity of genes, species, and ecosystems – provide humans with renewable resources such as food, fuels, fertile soils, clean water and air, medicines, as well as surroundings (from species to landscapes) of inspirational value. The resources of biological communities can be used within sustainable limits, but in many cases the human impact is exceeding sustainable limits.

Contrast this adaptationist and environmentalist view with the description of evolution in Futuyma (2009)—one of the leading textbooks of evolution.

1. Evoluion it the leading principle of the biological sciences. Evolutionary biology aims to discover the history of life and the causes of the diversity and characteristics of organisms.

2. Darwin's evolutionary theory, published in The Origin of Species in 1859, consisted of two major hypotheses: first, that all organisms have descended, with modification, from common ancestral forms of life, and second, that a chief agent of modification is natural selection.

3. Darwin's hypothesis that all species have descended with modification from common ancestors is supported by so much evidence that it has become as well established a fact as any in biology. His theory of natural selection as the chief cause of evolution was not broadly supported until the "evolutionary synthesis" that occurred in the 1930 and 1940s.

4. The evolutionary theory developed during and since the evolutionary synthesis consists of a body of principles that explain evolutionary change. Among these principles are (a) that genetic variation in phenotypic characters arises by random mutation and recombination; (b) that changes in the proportions of alleles and genotypes within a population may result in replacement of genotypes over generations; (c) that such changes in the proportions of genotypes may occur either by random fluctuations (genetic drift) or by nonrandom, consistent differences among phenotypes in survival or reproductive rates (natural selection); and (d) that as a result of different histories of genetic drift and natural selection, populations of a species may diverge and become reproductively isolated species.

These are very different descriptions of one of the core ideas in the life sciences and they don't agree. Which one do you think is better—the one written by a committee 23 people for the National Academies or the one written by Douglas Futuyma? Which one supports good science education and critical thinking?

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R.W. Daniel, Architectural orientation in the papyri

Daniel, Robert W. : Architectural orientation in the papyri / Robert W. Daniel . - Paderborn [u.a.]: Schöningh, 2010 . - XXII, 238 S.

M. CAPASSO ed., "Leggere greco e latino fuori dai confini nel Mondo Antico”

«I Quaderni di Atene e Roma» 1 (2010) = M. CAPASSO (ed.), Atti del Primo Congresso Nazionale dell’Associazione Italiana di Cultura Classica “Leggere greco e latino fuori dai confini nel Mondo Antico”, Lecce 10-11 maggio 2008, Pensa Multimedia, Lecce 2010, pp. 211.

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M. Capasso, La biblioteca ercolanese: vicende di uomini, vicende di libri: dal Paderni al Winckelmann
M.C. Cavalieri, La biblioteca ercolanese: i contenuti
P. Davoli-R. Cribiore, Una scuola di greco del IV secolo d.C. a Trimithis (Oasi di Dakhla, Egitto)
M. De Giorgi, La recezione della teoria notazionale greca nel Rinascimento europeo
R. Funari, Leggere Sallustio in Egitto
G. Laudizi, Seneca e il greco. La terminologia filosofica
D. Liuzzi, Le fonti greche degli Astronomica di Manilio
N. Pellé, Chi, come e perché leggeva storiografia greca in Egitto
P. Radiciotti, Scrivere e leggere il greco fuori dai confini temporali del mondo antico: Il Medioevo latino
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What's the Darwinian Survival Value of Religion?

 
Last month, John Wilkins was at a conference on Religion and Tolerance and links to the complete video of the conference are posted on his blog [Religion and Tolerance]. Fascinating stuff.

Here's Richard Dawkins explaining the possible Darwinian survival value of religion in a way that makes a lot of sense although I don't think he pays enough attention to explaining how genes cause behavior. He also touches on the question of whether religious belief can lead to doing evil things and chastises believers for bringing up Hitler and Stalin. It's not true, he says, that having a mustache makes you evil.

If you look quickly in the first few minutes you can see a famous Australian philosopher in the audience. He seems to be agreeing with Dawkins.

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Astigmata

 

Today's taxon of the week at Catalogue of Organisms is Astigmata [Life in the Fast Lane]. If you think you're not familiar with astigmata then get on over to Christopher Taylor's blog and correct that false assumption.

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Teach Your Children Well?

 
Wait for the credits at the end.

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HatTip: Friendly Atheist.

Evolving Humans

 
Nicholas Wade is often considered to be one of the best science journalists. He writes for The New York Times. His latest article is: Adventures in Very Recent Evolution. Here's one paragraph.

Many have assumed that humans ceased to evolve in the distant past, perhaps when people first learned to protect themselves against cold, famine and other harsh agents of natural selection. But in the last few years, biologists peering into the human genome sequences now available from around the world have found increasing evidence of natural selection at work in the last few thousand years, leading many to assume that human evolution is still in progress.

Later on in the article, Wade seems to be aware of the other mechanism of evolution but here he equates "evolution" with "natural selection." What do we have to do in order to educate science journalists? [Have Humans Stopped Evolving?] [Did biologists really think that human evolution stopped?]

Anyone who assumed that "humans ceased to evolve in the distant past" simply doesn't understand evolution. You can't stop evolution.

The main thrust of the article is whether natural selection is having a significant impact on our genetic makeup. There are many biologists who support the idea that more than 10% of our genes (alleles) are under selection and most of these biologists think that evolution by natural selection may even have sped up in the past 10,000 years.

John Hawks is a proponent of recent rapid human evolution by natural selection¹ and, as expected, he has a post discussing The New York Times article [Recent selection, the new paradigm ]. I'm still pretty skeptical of those studies that claim to detect selection by analyzing genomes. I find the lack of agreement between different studies much more troubling than John does.

Recent talks and posters at the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution meeting (SMBE 2010) highlighted some of the problems. Some emphasized the large number of false positives² in published studies and questioned the accuracy of the algorithms. Others pointed out that biased gene conversion at recombination hotspots may be much more frequent that we assumed and this gives the appearance of selective sweeps when, in fact, the alleles being enriched may be neutral or even detrimental.

Since john hawks weblog doesn't have a comments section I thought you readers might like to discuss it here.

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Photo Credit: The Future of Human Evolution [Aaron Avivi].

1. See Examples of Accelerated Human Evolution.

2. See Signals of Positive Selection in Humans?.

In the Middle

 
As usual, Canadian opinions lie somewhere between those of Americans and Europeans [Americans are Creationists; Britons and Canadians Side with Evolution].

Oh well, it could be worse.

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UPDATE: J. Lundon, The Scholia Minora in Homerum: An Alphabetical List

K. Vandorpe, S. Webens, Reconstructing Pathyris’ archives. A multicultural community in Hellenistic Egypt

Katelijn Vandorpe and Sofie Waebens, Reconstructing Pathyris’ archives. A multicultural community in Hellenistic Egypt (Collectanea Hellenistica 3), 
Brussels: Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België & l’Union Académique Internationale 2010, 
327p.
ISBN 97 8906 5690579.
Price, excluding port charges: 49,90 euro

SMBE 2010

 
Scenes from the 18th Annual meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, Lyon, France July 2010.

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REVIEW: P. Worp

F. A. J. Hoogendijk, B. P. Muhs (ed.), Sixty-Five Papyrological Texts: Presented to Klaas A. Worp on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday. Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava 33.   Leiden/Boston:  Brill, 2008.  Pp. xl, 416.  ISBN 9789004166882.  $216.00.   

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Reviewed by Daniela Colomo, University of Oxford (daniela.colomo@classics.ox.ac.uk)
Table of Contents

This volume contains sixty-five texts, almost all representing the editio princeps of hitherto unpublished papyri, offered to the leading papyrologist Klaas Antony Worp to celebrate his 65th birthday.1 As the Preface points out (p. v), the range of the contributions reflects not only the extremely wide spectrum of the interests of the honorandus, but also his willingness to collaborate with colleagues from all over the world in the genuine spirit of the amicitia papyrologorum. The variety of the texts included in the book is impressive, and they contribute relevant new information to literary, religious, and material culture as well as political, administrative, social and economic aspects of the Graeco-Roman and Byzantine world. We find Greek literary papyri (contributions nos. 1-4), Greek subliterary papyri (no. 9), a Coptic subliterary text (no. 5), a magic papyrus (no. 10), a large number of documents not only written in Greek (nos. 13-26, 28-61), but also in Latin (no. 11), Demotic (no. 12), Coptic (nos. 62-64), Arabic (no. 65), and even a bilingual text in Greek and Latin (no. 27). The chronological range stretches from the third century BC to the eleventh century AD, although the majority of the texts come from the first centuries of the common era and from late antiquity. Accordingly, a variety of writing material is also represented, from papyrus to parchment, from wooden tablets to ostraka.

Lyon, France

 
I'm in Lyon for the evolution meeting and this was our day to see the city. We haven't been here for over 30 years.

I love European cities. They are simultaneously more modern and more ancient than cities in Canada and the USA. I love the cafes and bistros and I love the old buildings and the history.

Lyon was an ancient hill top Celtic fort when it was captured by the Romans in 43 BC. Under the Romans it grew rapidly on the hill overlooking the Rhône and Saône rivers. Lugdunum, the Roman city, was the capital of Gaul and its most important city.

Here's an example of a bistro from Pixdaus.


And here's a photo taken today by Ms. Sandwalk. This is the Roman amphitheater built in about 15AD under the reign of Augustus. Today it's known as Théâtres Romains de Fourvièreand it's still in use as an outdoor theater, although part of it is in ruins and the capacity is much less than it was 1800 years ago after it was expanded.


Tomorrow we're going to the flea market.

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Revised Program for the 26th International Congress of Papyrology (Aug. 16-21 2010, Geneva)

Monday August 16th, afternoon

PAPYROLOGISTS IN THE FIELD Jaakko Frösén presiding

1a. Alain Martin  Quatre jours au Fayoum

2a. Hélène Cuvigny From Mons Claudianus to Xeron Palagos (1987-2010), or papyrology vs. archaeology

3a. Tomasz Derda Deir el-Naqlun : papyri in archaeological context

LITERARY PAPYRI I  

Guido Bastianini 

presiding

1b. John Whitehorne  

« Archilochus’ » Telephus

2b. Marco Perale  

Nuove letture e proposte interpretative in P.Köln VI 242

3b. Dirk Obbink  

A new fragment of Ezekiel’s Exagoge from Oxyrhynchus

ADMINISTRATION OF ROMAN EGYPT  

Rudolf Haensch presiding

1c.Thomas Kruse  

Rolle und Funktion des administrativen Hilfspersonals in der enchorischen Verwaltung des kaiserzeitlichen Ägyptens 

2c. Andrea Jördens Reparaturen in arsinoitischen Gauarchiven

3c. Simona Russo  

P.Tebt. II 476 : ancora una petizione

PAGAN RELIGION IN EGYPT  

Dorothy Thompson presiding

1d.Carmen Messerer 

La situation des prêtres en Égypte romaine entre le Ier et le IIIe s. ap. J.-C.

2d. Océane Henri 

Un exemple de l’interpretatio graeca : l’évolution du culte d’Apollon en Égypte ptolémaïque et romaine 3d. Gwen Jennes 

Theophoric names and religion in Graeco-Roman Egypt

PAPYROLOGISTS IN THE FIELD Jaakko Frösén 

4a. Cornelia Römer 

The Fayum Survey Project. The Themistou Meris 1999- 2006

5a. Rosario Pintaudi  

Papiri ed archeologia : Antinoupolis e Narmuthis

LITERARY PAPYRI I Franco Montanari presiding

4b. Ioanna Karamanou Allocating fr. 46a K. within the plot of Euripides’ Alexandros : a re- examination of P.Stras. inv. 2342,1 with new readings and textual notes

5b. Kathleen McNamee Ancient commentary on Euripides for Commentaria et Lexica Graeca in Papyris Reperta (CLGP)

6b. Marco-Antonio Santamaría Etymologizing the names of the gods in the Derveni papyrus and in Euripides’ Bacchae

ADMINISTRATION OF ROMAN EGYPT Jocelyne Nelis Clément  presiding

4c. Christina M. Kreinecker « We Ask You to Send... » – A remark on summonses and their (possible) reasons
5c. Richard Burchfield The scribe of the pagus

6c. Mohamed Solieman Tesserarius and quadrarius. Village officials in fourth century Egypt

PAGAN RELIGION IN EGYPT Chrysi Kotsifou  presiding

4d. Raquel Martin Reading the drawings in the Greek Magical Papyri

5d. Magali de Haro Sánchez Texte et contexte des papyrus iatromagiques grecs : recherches sur les conditions matérielles de réalisation des formulaires et des amulettes

6d. Franziska Naether, Heinz-Josef Thissen Dreaming with Asclepius- Imouthes : aspects of a revision of P. Oxy. 1381

Tuesday August 17th, morning

ANTHROPOLOGY, ONOMASTICS AND LINGUISTICS I Paul Heilporn   presiding

7a. Maryline Parca The archive of Zenon : where have the women gone ?

8a. Trevor V. Evans The language of the dioiketes’ letters in the Zenon archive

9a.. Sabine R. Huebner Intergenerational contracts in the papyri (P.Mich. V 322)

ARCHAEOLOGY OF GRAECO- ROMAN EGYPT Hélène Cuvigny  presiding

7b. Thomas Landvatter Papyrology, archaeology, and Greco-Roman period burial practices
8b. Jean-Yves Carrez-Maratray Les bains d’Oxyrhynchos : un réexamen à la lumière des fouilles de Péluse

9b. Piera Musardo La « casa-torre » a Soknopaiou Nesos : testimonianze archeologiche e papirologiche

HERCULANEUM AND ITS PAPYRI I Jürgen Hammerstaedt  presiding

7c. Richard Janko Another (virtually) complete literary roll from Herculaneum : Philodemus, On poems II 

8c. Gianluca Del Mastro II Thesaurus Herculanensium Voluminum

9c. Maria Grazia Assante Per una nuova edizione del P.Herc. 1044 : una prima ipotesi di ricostruzione del rotolo

CHRISTIANITY IN EGYPT Juan Chapa  presiding

7d. Anne-Marie Luijendijk A funerary shroud with Gospel of Thomas logion 5 in context 

8d. Joel A. Weaver A re-examination of I Corinthians 14 : 23-24 in light of Roman census declarations 

9d. Stanley E. Porter Recent efforts to reconstruct early christianity on the basis of its papyrological evidence

Tuesday August 17th, morning

EMOTIONS IN THE PAPYRI Herwig Maehler  presiding

10a. Demokritos Kaltsas Emotionen in ptolemäischen Petitionen und verwandten T exten

11a. Chrysi Kotsifou Womanly weakness and manly moderation : the use and abuse of pity on fourth century petitions
12a. Bernhard Palme Emotion und Strategie bei Dioskoros von Aphrodite

ARCHAEOLOGY OF GRAECO- ROMAN EGYPT Hélène Cuvigny  presiding

10b. Marek Dospěl New Texts from the Al-Hayz Oasis - a preliminary report

UNPUBLISHED TEXTS Alain Martin presiding

11b.i. Christian-Jürgen Gruber The unpublished verso of P.Oxy. 521 and its relation to the recto  

11b.ii Nahum Cohen A letter from Dioskoros to Herminos

12b.i. Ann Ellis Hanson A new letter from the archive of Isidoros son of Psophthis and his dispute with Tryphon the strategos 

12b.ii. Paul Heilporn Une querelle alexandrine sous Vaballath (et Aurélien) ? 

13b. Alia Hanafi Two unpublished Greek documents

HERCULANEUM AND ITS PAPYRI I Daniel Delattre  presiding

10.c. Holger Essler Epikurs theologische Schriften

11c. Giuliana Leone Il P.Herc. 1149/993 (Epicuro, Sulla natura, libro III) : una nuova ipotesi di ricostruzione

12c. Mario Capasso Non è Lucrezio

CHRISTIANITY IN EGYPT Stanley Porter  presiding

10d. Lincoln Blumell Is PSI IV 311 early evidence for arianism at Oxyrhynchus ?

11d. Sofia Torallas, Klaas A. Worp John Chrysostom at Montserrat

12d. Gregg Schwendner Who was the audience of Didymus the Blind’s lectures on the Psalm (PsT) ? Monastic education in fourth century Egypt

13d. Alexandra Trachsel / Uri Yiftach-Firanko Genizah ms. 17 : être aux prises à propos de l’acte de la proskynesis

Tuesday August 17th, afternoon

EMOTIONS IN THE PAPYRI Raffaella Cribiore  presiding

14a. Anne Boud’hors Emotions in Coptic letters of daily life

15a. Tonio Sebastian Richter « ...jealously we looked at all the sound children who are their parents’ comfort... » Pleasant and unpleasant emotions in Coptic legal documents

16a. Ari Bryen Dionysia’s Complaint : finding emotions in the papyri

ARTEMIDORUS Dirk Obbink  presiding
14b. Luciano Canfora Le pseudo-Artémidore dans le papyrus de Turin

15b. Irene Pajón Leyra Paradoxography on the verso of the Artemidorus papyrus

16b. Jürgen Hammerstaedt The status quaestionis of the Artemidorus Papyrus

HISTORY OF PTOLEMAIC AND ROMAN EGYPT John Whitehorne  presiding
14c. Brian Mc Ging Revolt in Ptolemaic Egypt : nationalism revisited
15c. Gunnar R. Dumke Zur Figur Ptolemaios’ I. in der politischen Kommunikation seiner Nachfolger

16c. Panagiota Sarischouli Ein Bruchstück der Acta Alexandrinorum

CHRISTIANITY IN EGYPT Anne-Marie Luijendijk  presiding

14d.i. Monika Minehart The [Mis]identification of P.Oxy. XLII 3057 [as the earliest Christian Letter] 14:15 

14d.ii. Karl-Heinrich Ostmeyer Die Oratio Jacobi. Eine Autopsie des Papyrus b. P. gr. 13 895 14:30 

15d.i. Timothy M. Teeter An amulet with the liturgy of St Mark

15d.ii. Adriano Magnani P.Berol. 8877 (Acta Isidori) : Les Acta Martyrum Alexandrinorum et la « Deuxième Sophistique »

LAYOUT OF PAPYRI I Jean-Luc Fournet  presiding

16d. Valentina Millozzi The livre d’écolier (P.Cairo JE 65445) : some problematic issues

Tuesday August 17th, afternoon

EMOTIONS

17a. Willy Clarysse From anger to agony. Emotions in private letters on papyrus

LITERARY PAPYRI II André Hurst  presiding

17b. Franco Montanari, Davide Muratore, Fabian Reiter Scholia Minora auf Wachstafeln der Berliner Papyrussamlung : ein deutsch- italienisches Editionsprojekt

18b. Marco Stroppa Un papiro inedito del Fisiologo Greco 

19b. Lucia Vannini Papiri con edizioni commentate

HISTORY OF PTOLEMAIC AND ROMAN EGYPT Fabian Reiter  presiding

17c. Janneke de Jong Emperor and divinity in Roman Egypt

18c. Myrto Malouta Antinoopolis and Hermopolis : a tale of two cities 

19c. Marie Drew-Bear Sur les doreai agonistiques de Gallien en Égypte

LAYOUT OF PAPYRI I

17d. Rachel Yuen-Collingridge, Malcolm Choat The copyist at work : scribal practice in duplicate documents

18d. Daniela Colomo Word division in Greek literary papyri

19d.i. Julia Lougovaya Formal features in the arrangement and layout of epigrams in papyri and inscriptions

19d.ii. Charikleia Armoni Zwei rätselhafte Symbola aus der Kölner Sammlung

20. Nikos Litinas / Traianos Gagos (†) The return of the Boukoloi & A Ps.-Aristotle letter to Alexander in a Michigan papyrus Plenary session 

Wednesday August 18th, morning

ANTHROPOLOGY, ONOMASTICS AND LINGUISTICS II Arthur Verhoogt  presiding

21a. Mark Depauw Creating identities in Graeco-Roman Egypt

22a. Isabelle Marthot The Antaiopolite Nome villages

23a. Alain Delattre Les onomastiques régionales en Egypte aux VIIe et VIIIe siècles

LITERARY PAPYRI III Alberto Nodar  presiding

21b. Natascia Pellé I codici papiracei di Tucidide : aspetti bibliografici e paleografici

22b. Ivanoe Privitera The footprint left by Aristotle and the Peripatos in the papyri 

23b. Benjamin H. Weaver Orthographies of poetic reference in the Athenaion Politeia

ROMAN ARMY IN EGYPT Fritz Mitthof  presiding

21c. Adam Lajtar Greek and Latin papyri from the Egypt Exploration Society excavations at Qasr Ibrim : a testimony to the Roman army in Upper Egypt and Lower Nubia in the first years of Augustus

22c. Sofie Waebens Reflecting the « change in AD 140 » : the veteran categories of the epikrisis documents revisited
23c. Rodney Ast, Giuseppina Azzarello, Michel Cottier A Roman veteran and his skilful administrator : Gemellus and Epagathus in light of unpublished papyri

COLLECTIONS OF PAPYRI I Ann Ellis Hanson  presiding

21d. Roberta Mazza Graeco-Roman Egypt at Manchester

22d. Rosa Otranto Reconsidering the origin and the acquisition of P.Lit.Lond. 133 

23d. Malcolm Choat Lord Crawford’s search for papyri : on the origin of the Rylands papyrus collection

Wednesday August 18th, morning

ADMINISTRATION IN PTOLEMAIC EGYPT Brian Mc Ging  presiding

24a. Gianluca Casa Prices and monopoly in Ptolemaic Egypt : oils and about

24a. Carla Balconi Un document inedito dal cosiddetto archivio di Pankrates

25a. Erja Salmenkivi Herakleopolite Meridarchs in the First Century BC ?

LITERARY PAPYRI III Richard Janko  presiding

24b. Jelle Stoop Can papyri account for the lack of narrative elegy ? 

25b. Alessandro Boria Musica su papiro. La pratica della scrittura musicale nella tradizione papiracea

26b. Raffaella Cribiore New Literary Texts from Amheida

ROMAN ARMY IN EGYPT Maria Rosaria Falivene  presiding

24c. Claudia Kreuzsaler Soldatenwitwen vor Gericht. Ein erneuter Blick auf P.Cattaoui

25c. Patrick Sänger Veteranen unter den Severern und den frühen Soldatenkaisern : die Dokumentensammlung der Veteranen Aelius Sarapammon und Aelius Syrio

26c. Anna Maria KaiserDie Fahndung nach Deserteuren im spätantiken Ägypten

COLLECTIONS OF PAPYRI I Sofia Torallas Tovar  presiding

24d. Nadine Quenouille La collection d’ostraca de la bibliothèque de l’Université de Leipzig 

25d. James Cowey Edition of London Ostraca

26d. Holger Essler, Fabian Reiter Die Berliner Sammlung im Deutschen Papyruskartell

Thursday August 19th, morning

27a. DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY AND TOOLS OF THE TRADE I Adam Bülow-Jacobsen  presiding

28a. Herwig Maehler Die Zukunft der griechischen Papyrologie

29a. Bart Van Beek Papyri in bits & bytes - electronic texts and how to use them 

30a. Marius Gerhardt Papyrus Portal Deutschland

LEGAL MATTERS IN PAPYRI I Hans-Albert Rupprecht  presiding

27b. Katelijn Vandorpe Bilingual evidence in Ptolemaic courts

28b. Nadine Grotkamp Diebstahl im ptolemäischen Ägypten

29b. Barbara Anagnostou-Canas Droit provincial et protection des intérêts privés en Égypte sous l’empire

HERCULANEUM AND ITS PAPYRI II Maria Serena Funghi  presiding

27c. Dino De Sanctis Il campo semantico di Ialeo-Ialia nei testi ercolanesi 

28c. Margherita Erbì Nuove letture in PHerc. 1004, col. 58

29c. Antonio Parisi Segni, correzioni e particolarità grafiche del P.Herc. 831

DEMOTIC PAPYRI Mark Depauw  presiding

27d. John Tait Comparing structures in the Greek novel and Demotic narrative

28d. Monica Signoretti From Demotic to Greek : some considerations on ancient translation 

29d. Franziska Naether, Heinz-Josef Thissen Träumen mit Asklepios-Imuthes : Aspekte einer Neubearbeitung von P.Oxy. 

Thursday August 19th, morning

DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY AND TOOLS OF THE TRADE I Roger Bagnall  presiding

30a. Reinhold Scholl Textmining  und Papyri

31a. Herbert Verreth Topography of Egypt online

COLLECTIONS OF PAPYRI II Rosario Pintaudi  presiding

30b. Francesca Longo Auricchio, Giovanni Indelli Il « Fondo Vogliano » conservato a Napoli 

31b. Maria Rosaria Falivene On provenances. The case of P.Köln 448

DEMOTIC PAPYRI 

30d. Marja Vierros Phraseological parallels between Greek and Demotic contracts 

32a. Joshua Sosin / James Cowey Digital papyrology : a new platform for collaborative control of DDbDP, HGV, and APIS data Plenary session in Room MR080 (1 hour) 

Thursday August 19th, afternoon

ANTHROPOLOGY, ONOMASTICS AND LINGUISTICS III Sabine Huebner presiding

33a. Yanne Broux, Sandra Coussement Creating identities through double names in the Ptolemaic and Roman period

34a. Sandra Scheuble Makedones und xenoi im ptolemäischen Ägypten – zur Frage der ethnischen Zusammensetzung der ptolemäischen Gesellschaft in der 2. Hälfte des 2. Jh. v. Chr.

35a. Annalissa Roy Variations in formulaic language occurring in the Mons Claudianus ostraca

LEGAL MATTERS IN PAPYRI II Andrea Jördens presiding

33b. Marlies Appl Anazetesis und Parastasis anhand der Dokumentation zu den Nyktostrategoi

34b. Maria Nowak The function of witnesses in the deeds mortis causa of late antique Egypt

35b. Jakub Urbanik « What would you have rather not taken place ! » Marriage and divorce in the late antique legal practice and legislation

TAXATION IN GRAECO- ROMAN EGYPT I Joe Manning presiding

33c. Rosalie Cook Four Ptolemaic land and crop surveys in the Macquarie papyrus collection

34c. Micaela Langellotti The meaning of eide in tax-documents in Roman Egypt

35c. Cassandre Hartenstein, Frédéric Colin Un contribuable d’Edfou à l’Institut d’égyptologie de l’Université de Strasbourg

LAYOUT OF PAPYRI II Bernard Legras presiding

33d. Serena Ammirati The Latin book of legal content: a significant typology in the history of the ancient book

34d. Margit Homann Versiculus transversus: layout of ancient letters

35d. Paolo Radiciotti Il particolarismo grafico nelle testimonianze papiracee : una nuova riflessione

Thursday August 19th, afternoon

LITERARY PAPYRI IV Peter Parsons presiding

36a. André Hurst Commentaires de l’Alexandra de Lycophron dans quelques fragments papyrologiques
37a. Antonella Marandino La tradizione papiracea dell’ Alessandra di Licofrone

38a. Carlo Vessella Lettori di Corinna in Egitto

LEGAL MATTERS IN PAPYRI II Thomas Kruse presiding

36b. José Luis Alonso Law without lawyers : hypallagma or the dangers of Romanistic thinking

36b. Joachim Hengstl Zum Sprachgebrauch des Neuen Testaments aus rechtspapyrologischer Sicht

ADMINISTRATION OF ROMAN EGYPT II Klaas Worp presiding

36c. Sven Tost Die Unterscheidung zwischen öffentlicher und privatgeschäftlicher Sphäre am Beispiel des Amts der riparii 
37c. Sophie Kovarik Das spätantike Notariat

38c. Federico Morelli La corrispondenza di Senouthios anystes tra mondo antico e mondo arabo

39c. Gad El-Sayed Demosios iatros : a government position or a liturgic office ?

GRAFFITI & DIPINTI Jean Gascou presiding

36d. Jean-Luc Fournet La « dipintologie » grecque : une nouvelle discipline auxiliaire de la papyrologie ?

37d. Yoshiyuki Suto / Ryosuke Takahashi Bilingual graffiti from the Ptolemaic quarries in Akoris and Zawiyat-al-Sultan

38d. Jitse H.F. Dijkstra Scrateched in stone: the Isis Temple Graffiti Project grafico nelle testimonianze papiracee : una nuova riflessione

39d. Claudia Tirel Cena Il tempio di Deir el-Medina e l’archivio di Totoes

Friday August 20th, morning

DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY AND TOOLS OF THE TRADE II Rodney Ast presiding

40a. Giovanna Menci Utilità di un database di alfabeti per lo studio della scrittura greca dei papiri

41a. Marie-Hélène Marganne Les extensions du fichier Mertens-Pack3 du CEDOP AL

42a. Robert Kraft Imaging the papyri collection at the University of Pennsylvania Museum (Philadelphia PA, USA)

LITERARY PAPYRI V Alain Blanchard presiding

40b. Alberto Nodar « Wild » Homer papyri in the Roca-Puig collection

41b. Maria Chiara Scappaticcio Sulla « filologia dei papiri virgiliani » : i PColt 1 e 2

42b. Marco Fressura Per un corpus dei papyri bilingui dell’ Eneide di Virgilio

ADMINISTRATION OF GRAECO- ROMAN EGYPT Todd Hickey presiding

40c.i. W. Graham Claytor A Ptolemaic petition to the Archidikastes 8:45-9:00 

40c.ii. Peter Arzt-Grabner Ein neues Fragment zu P.Select. 9 («Edikt eines Präses über Maximalzinsen») 9:00-9:15 

41c.i. André-Louis Rey Les raisons d’une altercation : un réexamen de P.Grenfell I 38 9:15-9:30

41c.ii. Dorothy Thompson P.Enteuxeis 27 (222 BC) and the Nile transport of grain under the Ptolemies

42c Marco C.D. Paganini The invention of the gymnasiarch

ARABIC PAPYRI Andreas Kaplony  presiding

40d. Petra M. Sijpesteijn Coptic and Arabic papyri from Deir Bala’izah

41d. Amalia Zomeño Arabic Papyri in Spanish Collections : Palau Ribes in Barcelona

42d. Marie Legendre Antinoopolis/Anṣinā : une ville et ses textes

Friday August 20th, morning

DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY AND TOOLS OF THE TRADE III James Cowey presiding

43a. Roger T. Macfarlane / Stephen M. Bay Multi-Spectral Imaging and Papyrology : Advantages and Limitations

44a. Adam Bülow-Jacobsen Digital infrared photography of papyri and ostraca

LITERARY PAPYRI V André-Louis Rey presiding

43b. John Lundon P.Köln XII 468 and reading Homer in late Roman / early Byzantine Panopolis

44b. Kevin Kalish The presence of Hades in the Codex of Visions (P.Bodm. 31, 32, 35)

45b. Alain Blanchard Le papyrus Bodmer et la reception de Ménandre à l’époque byzantine

COPTIC PAPYRI James Keenan presiding

43c .Loreleï Vanderheyden Le pan copte des archives de Dioscore d’Aphrodité

44c. María-Jesús Albarrán Martinez New Coptic monastic texts in the Palau Ribes Collection in Barcelona 11:30-11:45 45c. Georg Schmelz Des spätkoptische Arbeitsvertrag P.Heid. inv. Kopt. 451

ARABIC PAPYRI Andreas Kaplony presiding

43d. Sobhi Bouderbala Les ostraca arabes de la fouille de Fusṭāṭ - Isṭabl ‘Antar (IFAO). Édition critique et apport au domaine de la papyrologie arabe

44d. Lucian Reinfandt Arabic papyri from Mesopotamia

45d. Jelle Bruning Commercial relations and a harbour near al-Fusṭāṭ

Friday August 20th, afternoon

TECHNICAL MATTERS Marie-Hélène Marganne presiding

46a. Katherine Blouin Minimum firmitatis, plurimum lucri : le cas du « lin mendésien »

47a. Alette V. Bakkers Hydreumata

48a. Isabella Andorlini Segni di malattia nelle lettere dei papiri

LITERARY PAPYRI VI Thomas Schmidt presiding

46b. José-Antonio Fernández Delgado Modèles progymnasmatiques de l’époque hellénistique : P.Mil.Vogl. III 123

47b. Maroula F. Salamenou Documents in the oratorical speeches of the fourth century BC

COPTIC PAPYRI Alain Delattre presiding

46c. James Keenan The Bilingual Scribe of the Temseu Skordon Codex

47c. Jennifer Cromwell Following in father’s footsteps : the question of father-son scribal training in eigth century Thebes 48c. Florence Calament Le projet de réédition des archives de Pesynthios en marche : focus sur les papyrus du musée du Louvre

ARABIC PAPYRI Petra Sijpesteijn presiding

46d.i. Khaled Mohamed Younes Legal documents belonging to a certain ‘Ammār b. Salama b. ‘Abd al- Wārith. Two unpublished papyri from the Beinecke Library of Yale University 14 :15-14:30 

47d.ii. Johann Thomann Fragment d’un horoscope arabe sur papyrus (IXe siècle) 

TAXATION IN GRAECO-ROMAN EGYPT II Willy Clarysse 

48d. Lorenzo Fati L’archivio dei sitologoi della meris di Herakleides, probabilmente conservato a Boubastos

49d. Magdy A.I. Aly P.Mich. 336b

Friday August 20th, afternoon

TECHNICAL MATTERS Alexandra Trachsel presiding

50a. Fritz Mitthof Drachme und As, Denar und Obol : Hybride Münzsysteme in römischen Ägypten ?

51a. Francisca A.J. Hoogendijk Petition (?) on the financing of athletic training 16:15-16:30 

52a. Sofie Remijsen A new sport in a late antique letter

LITERARY PAPYRI VI John Lundon presiding

50b.i. Agathe Antoni Une citation d’Hésiode dans l’avant-dernière colonne du P.Herc. 1384 16:15- 

51b.ii Amin Benaissa A New Fragment of Dionysius’ Bassarica ?

THE ECONOMY OF GRAECO-ROMAN EGYPT Bernhard Palme presiding

50c. Sophie Gällnö Les rapports de genre dans le domaine de la production textile au IVe s. ap. J.-C. d’après les papyrus documentaires

51c. Lucia Rossi Le transport interne et méditerranéen du blé égyptien : les structures institutionnelles et leurs intermédiaires commerciaux

52c. Manna Satama Performers and their contracts in the Roman period

ANTHROPOLOGY, ONOMASTICS AND LINGUISTICS IV Katlijn Vandorpe presiding

50d. Rachel Mairs Interpreters and translators in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt

51d. Naim Vanthieghem L’apport des lettres pour l’étude des particules grecques à l’époque romaine

52d. Arthur Verhoogt Dictating letters in Greek and Roman Egypt : author, scribe, and audience