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  • 1 - The Papyri of Terence and the Latin Grammatical Tradition

  • from Part I - Philological and Literary Insights
  • Edited by Maria Chiara Scappaticcio, Università degli Studi di Napoli 'Federico II'
  • Book:
    Latin Texts on Papyrus and the Study of Classics
    Published online:
    12 December 2025
    Print publication:
    08 January 2026, pp 47-63
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    Two papyri dated to the fourth and fifth centuries (P.Vindob. inv. L 103 and P.Oxy. XXIV 2401), prior to the Bembinus codex, transmit the earliest critical edition, corrected and annotated, of Terence: 162 verses from the Andria, that is to say 2.6 per cent of the whole of Terence’s theatrical corpus. This modest papyrological corpus, which is part of a tradition of ancient ecdotics, nourished by several centuries of exegesis, proves to be rich in information: on the text itself and its variants, as well as on its context of use, in a Greek-speaking environment, and for educational purpose. The theatrical, prosodic, and metrical dimensions of the text have been completely ignored in favour of a grammatical approach. Terence has not been performed on stage for a long time; he has become a canonical author of reference for the training of the elite of the Roman Empire, widely used by grammarians and commentators. The two papyri thus have their rightful place in the history of the Latin grammatical tradition, just as they do in the exegetical tradition.