The Cahiers du CEDOPAL

Fitting within the framework of the research project of the CEDOPAL « Culture, vie et société dans le monde gréco-romain » (Culture, Life, and Society in the Greco-Roman World), the intention of the Cahiers du CEDOPAL is to disseminate to a broad audience, including younger people, works that rely mainly on the Greek and Latin papyri, as well as on the latest developments in research. The Cahiers du CEDOPAL provide readily available information on the history of books and ancient libraries, as well as on other topics related to the Greco-Roman world, such as slavery, childhood, food, musique and dance, education, health, etc.

The cover image of the Cahiers du CEDOPAL depicts papyrus rolls placed in an ancient library, as they are represented on the Gallo-Roman relief of Neumagen, the ancient Noviomagus (2nd cent. C.E.), now lost, according to the engraving published in Ch. Brouwer & J. Masen, Antiquitatum et Annalium Trevirensium libri XXV, I (Liège, ex Officina Typographica Joannis Matthiae Hovii, 1670), p. 105.

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N°9 : Théon, l’enfant grec d’Oxyrhynque. La vie quotidienne en Égypte au IIIe siècle

The many papyri found in the Egyptian desert give us a glimpse into the daily life of the inhabitants of the Nile Valley under the Roman rule, be they men, women, and even children. Young readers nowadays can learn a lot from papyri! The book Théon, l’enfant grec d’Oxyrhynque is based on this hugely rich documentation. Theon is a rather talkative, but very curious boy, who tells of his life in Egypt in the beginning of the 3rd century CE. This eleven-year-old describes the world around him. As the story unfurls, the boy grows up and learns to be a weaver like his father and his ancestors. The story finishes with the end of his childhood, as he expresses the wish to get married, and tells three brief tales about his “heroes” : Alexander the Great, Cleopatra, and Antinoos.
The plot is imaginary, but entirely based on historical documents and verified facts. The book is also illustrated with many images of art works, objects, and places, which will help increase the young reader’s insight into art history and iconography. Even if this book is primarily aimed at youger readers, and history lovers, Theon’s life can be enjoyed with the entire family.

Détails
2020, 109 pages, 127 color images

ISBN
978-2-87562-241-9

Prix
24,00 euros

N°8 : L’Esclave dans l’Égypte romaine. Choix de documents traduits et commentés

After the conquest of Egypt by Alexander (in the winter of 332-331 BCE), many Greek-speakers settled in the country in search of a better life. They brought their language and their way of life, which included owning slaves. After Cleopatra’s death in 30 BCE, Egypt was annexed by Rome. Roman people settled in Egypt, but Latin never became a widely spread language, being used mostly by the Roman elite. These Romans also had slaves. Greeks, Romans and even Egyptians left numerous written records—on papyri and ostraca (potsherds and stones), in Greek and Latin—relating to slaves. This book offers a selection of these documents written between 30 BCE and 400 CE. They are grouped in ten chapters, which illustrate in an original way the different aspects of a slave’s life in Roman Egypt: becoming a slave, changing master, the used slave, the slave as taxpayer, the different slave, the slave as criminal, the mistreated or punished slave, the fugitive slave, the slave and his masters, stopping being a slave. Each document is translated and accompanied by a commentary for a thorough understanding.

Détails
2020, 147 pages

ISBN
978-2-87562-240-2

Prix
14,00 euros

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N°7 : Le livre d’histoire dans les papyrus

Le livre d’histoire dans les papyrus by Natascia Pellé, was developed from a seminar on the corpus of historical papyri of Xenophon held at the University of Liège in 2009. The book consists of a study of the diffusion of Greek and Latin historiography in Graeco-Roman Egypt, by means of a bibliological and palaeographic analysis of papyri containing fragments of Greek and Latin historians, as well as adespota. Close attention is paid to the the physical characteristics of the papyri which allows the editorial disposition of the “history book” on papyrus in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt to be reconstructed.

Détails
2011, 101 pages, 5 black and white illustrated plates

ISBN
9-782874-561603

Prix
20,00 euros

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N°6 : Les papyrus latins d’Herculanum. Découverte, consistance, contenu

The approximately hundred papyri which make up the Latin library discovered in the so-called Villa of the Pisones, in Herculaneum, have always been neglected by scholars, unlike Greek papyri, because of their poor state of conservation. There is no general study of this library, much of which remains unedited. Les papyrus latins d’Herculanum. Découverte, consistance, contenu by M. Capasso is a starting point for such a study, as it explores problems such as the original consistency of the Latin library, its content and its relationship to the Greek library.

Détails
2011, 131 pages, 9 black and white illustrated plates

ISBN
9-782874-561597

Prix
20,00 euros

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N°5 : Papyrus et papyrologie à l’Université de Liège

Under the title Papyrus et papyrologie à l’Université de Liège (Papyri and Papyrology at the University of Liège), the fifth issue of the Cahiers du CEDOPAL includes 7 contributions, of which 4 are about the history of this discipline at the University of Liège from 1891 to the present day (Marie-Hélène Marganne), 1 is about the restoration of papyri in general (Mario Capasso) and 1 about the restoration of the CEDOPAL papyrus collection (Mario Capasso and Natascia Pellé), as well as the republishing of the inaugural speech about La Constitution d’Athènes jusqu’à l’établissement de la démocratie (The Constitution of the Athenians until the establishment of democracy) which Louis Roersch gave on October 13th, 1891 at the University of Liège.

Détails
2007, 107 pages, 8 black and white illustrated plates

ISBN
9-782874-560354

Prix
20,00 euros

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N°4 : La Villa des Papyrus et les rouleaux d’Herculanum

The fourth issue of the collection contains the monograph “La Villa des Papyrus et les rouleaux d’Herculanum. La Bibliothèque de Philodème” by Daniel Delattre (The Villa of Papyri and the Herculaneum Scrolls. Philodemus’ Library). The monograph considers the origin, content – essentially epicurean philosophy – and the state of the most beautiful private library that antiquity left us and the difficulties connected with deciphering scrolls charred by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79, and the most recent techniques – in particular multispectral imaging – developed to remedy this.
Research director of the CNRS (Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes – papyrology section), Daniel Delattre has written several contributions on Herculanean papyrology and ancient philosophy, and is the editor of “Philodème de Gadara. Commentaires sur la musique, livre IV” in the Collection des Universités de France.

Détails
2006, 182 pages, 10 black and white illustrated plates

ISBN
2-87456-23-5

Prix
25,00 euros

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N°3 : Le livre médical dans le monde gréco-romain

The third issue of the collection includes the monograph “Le livre médical dans le monde gréco-romain” (The Medical Book in the Greco-Roman World), which is largely inspired by a series of conferences given in 2002 by Marie-Hélène Marganne, CEDOPAL Director, in Paris, Brussels and Lausanne, on the role of writing, books and libraries on the constitution and the transmission of medical knowledge from the Fifth Century B.C. to the Byzantine period. The preface to the work is written by Danielle Gourevitch, Director of studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris.

Détails
2004, 175 pages, 7 black and white illustrated plates

ISBN
2-930322-92-6

Prix
25,00 euros

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N°2 : Les livres dans le monde gréco-romain

The second issue of the collection includes the monograph “Les livres dans le monde gréco-romain” (Books from the Greco-Roman World), which is a very lively text largely inspired by the panels prepared by Odette Bouquiaux-Simon for the exhibition on “Le monde des livres dans l’Antiquité classique” (The World of Books in Classical Antiquity) organised at the University of Liege in 1993 and then presented, in whole or in part, in Brussels, Leuven, Visé, again in Liege in 1997, then Tongeren, Valenciennes and Amsterdam. It also includes Jean Christophe Didderen’s “Liber Antiquus” bibliography, which lists over 800 titles on the history of the book and of the libraries of the Greco-Roman world.

Détails
2004, 123 pages, 6 black and white illustrated plates

ISBN
2-930322-80-2

Prix
20,00 euros

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N°1 : La Bibliothèque d’Alexandrie et l’histoire des textes

The first issue of the collection contains the new edition of the contribution of Luciano Canfora, “La Bibliothèque d’Alexandrie et l’histoire des textes” (The Library of Alexandria and the History of Texts)(1 ed., Liege, CEDOPAL, 1993, out of stock), supplemented by Nathaël Istasse’s “Alexandria docta” bibilography, which lists nearly 700 titles on the intellectual and scientific life in Alexandria in the Ptolemaic, Roman and Byzantine periods.

Détails
2004, 84 pages, 6 black and white illustrated plates

ISBN
2-930322-74-8

Prix
20,00 euros