Per una geografia della circolazione letteraria in Egitto (V-VII s.): il contributo dei testi latini su papiro

Mapping the circulation of literature in Egypt (5th-7th cent.) : the contribution of Latin texts on papyrus · A critical overview of the circulation of Latin literature in Late Antique Egypt (5th-7th cent.) is offered through a survey of texts on papyrus and their contextualization, in order to highlight the role Latin played within such a multilingual and multicultural context and the forms of its relationship with Greek, which was the dominant language. Both the four canonical authors making up the so-called quadriga of the grammarian Arusianus Messius and iuniores authors like Lucan and Juvenal contributed to shaping a cultural milieu where the connection between grammar and law – and accordingly bureaucracy – was close and fundamental.