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European Research Council

Starting Grants 2009

PHerc

Interactive edition and interpretation of various works by

Epicurean and Stoic philosophers surviving at Herculaneum

Principal Investigator

Dr. Graziano Ranocchia

Host Institution

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche

Istituto per il Lessico Intellettuale Europeo e Storia delle Idee

The main Goals of the project:

i. critical edition of various philosophical works by key figures of Hellenistic philosophy;

ii. first comprehensive interpretation of them.

These works are:

a) Epicurus, On Nature, Uncertain books (PHerc. 454, 908/1390, 989, 1199, 1385, 1639);

b) Chrysippus, Unknown work ‘On the cognitive, moral and dialectical virtues of the sage’ (PHerc. 1020);

c) Philodemus, On Rhetoric, Uncertain book (PHerc. 1004).

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These works are totally lost in the manuscript tradition and the papyri in which they are contained are unique witnesses (testes unici) for them.

Besides:

i) they are either totally inedited (PHerc. 454, 989, 1199, 1385, 1639) or only partially edited (PHerc. 908/1390 by Puglia, PHerc. 1020 by H. von Arnim, PHerc. 1004 by S. Sudhaus).

ii) we have to do, rather than with small fragments (as usual for Hellenistic philosophers), with entire works (Chrysippus and Philodemus) or books of them (Epicurus). Even very long continuing portions of them are preserved in original or, in alternative, in the old apographs made immediately after the unrolling.

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Three main problems

1. Up to recent times modern editors of Herculanean papyri did not usually read the originals themselves, but based themselves on either the engravings printed in Herculanensium voluminum quae supersunt (Neapoli, 1793-1855; 1862-1876) or ancient transcriptions known as disegni napoletani and oxoniensi. Even when they did so, they could not dispose of any modern technology for doing this so successfully.

2. Another problem is the current upheaval of the bookroll’s original succession of fragments due to various technical and historical reasons. Still very recent editions contain wrong reconstructions of it and should hence be remade. A ground for this is the deceiving geometrical model used by recent editors for this, viz. that of a series of concentric circles.

3. A third problem is represented by the presence of overlapping layers (‘sovrapposti’ and ‘sottoposti’) in many unrolled fragments.

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1. to read and transcribe the original text by means of last-generation stereo-

microscopes and the new infrared images at 950 nm produced by Brigham

Young University.

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Our answer to these problems

2. to adopt the geometrical model of Archimedes’ spiral and cross periodically

recurring physical accidents with volutions, kolleseis and columns beginnings

and/or ends.

(Picture taken from H. Essler, Rekonstruktion von Papyrusrollen auf mathematischer Grundlage, «CErc»

38 (2008), p. 291).

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3. to replace virtually ‘sovrapposti’ and ‘sottoposti’ into their original place.

A new editorial system: making Herculaneum and Graeco-Egyptian

papyrology closer.

PHerc. 1004, col. 80

Ranocchia-Vassallo:

diplomatic transcription

PHerc. 1004, col. 80

Ranocchia-Vassallo:

literary transcription

Research team and interdisciplinarity

My team will be composed by PhD students as well as by Post-docs. Two of

them studied ancient philosophy and need a deeper philological and

papyrological formation. This will be effected through a specific high school

directed by me in collaboration with various scholars of Naples University

‘Federico II’, Cassino University and Sapienza University of Rome.

Post-docs:

- Michele Alessandrelli, Doctor in ancient philosophy (Rome ‘La Sapienza’)

PhD Students:

- Aurora Corti, PhD student in ancient philosophy (Rome, ‘La Sapienza’)

- Christian Vassallo, graduated in classical philology, PhD student in ancient

philosophy, Naples (‘Federico II’)

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Host insitution and other legal entities

The Italian Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, will put at our disposition

a permanent office both in Rome, in the buildings of the Istituto per il

Lessico Intellettuale Europeo e Storia delle Idee. These will be our

administrative and organisational offices.

The Biblioteca Nazionale ‘Vittorio Emanuele III’ of Naples has offered us

its official sponsorship and, more concretely, a permanent workspace with

various facilities at the 3rd floor of Palazzo Reale very close to the

‘Officina dei papiri’. The National Library will also relieve us from paying

any print rights due for images at 950 nm and reproductions of ancient

apographs of papyri.

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TESTI STOICI ED EPICUREI

DELLA COLLEZIONE ERCOLANESE

a cura di

GRAZIANO RANOCCHIA

Roma

2016

SOMMARIO

INTRODUZIONE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . » I

SEZIONE PRIMA: EPICURO E AUTORI EPICUREI

1. Epicuri De natura XXV (PHerc. 454) ediderunt Aurora Corti et

Graziano Ranocchia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . » 2

2. Epicurei Scriptoris anonymi Opus incertum (PHerc. 908/1390)

recognoverunt Aurora Corti et Graziano Ranocchia . . . . . . . . » 7

SEZIONE SECONDA: STOICI ANTICHI

1. Stoici Scriptoris anonymi Opus incertum (PHerc. 1020), coll.

104-112, recognoverunt Michele Alessandrelli et Graziano Ra-

nocchia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . » 45

SEZIONE TERZA: FILODEMO DI GADARA

1. [Philodemi] [De rhetorica] Liber incertus (PHerc. 1004), coll. 32-

84, ediderunt Graziano Ranocchia et Christian Vassallo . . . . . . » 65

2. [Philodemi] [Index Stoicorum] (PHerc. 1018), coll. 10 et 33-37,

recognovit Graziano Ranocchia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . » 158

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G. Ranocchia, Filodemo, Sulla retorica, Libro incerto

(PHerc. 1004), coll. 32-84.

Edizione, introduzione e commento.

International Workshop Philodemus, On Rhetoric, Uncertain Book

Grand Hotel La Favorita, Sorrento (Naples)

12-14 September 2013

International Workshop PHerc. 908/1390

(Unknown Epicurean Author, [On Procreation]

Villa Signorini, Ercolano (Naples)

18-20 September 2014.

PHerc. 1020Early Stoic Author, Unknown Work

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP 15-17

September

2016Naples,

Istituto Italiano

per gli Studi Filoso ci

CNR-IRiSS

Info:

Dr. Graziano Ranocchia

CNR-ILIESI

Via Carlo Fea, 2

00161 Roma (Italy)

graziano.ranocchia@cnr.it

Funded by:

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation/Stiftung

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto per il Lessico

Intellettuale Europeo e Storia delle Idee

Organisers:

Michele Alessandrelli (CNR-ILIESI)

Graziano Ranocchia (CNR-ILIESI)

Participants:

Francesca Alesse (CNR-ILIESI)

Thomas Benatouil (University of Lille)

Walter Cavini (University of Bologna)

Kilian Fleischer (CNR-ILIESI)

Jean-Baptiste Gourinat (CNRS-Centre Léon Robin)

Franco Ferrari (University of Salerno)

Jaap Mansfeld (University of Utrecht)

Glenn Most (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)

Alessandro Stavru (Freie Universität, Berlin)

Christian Vassallo (University of Trier)

M. Alessandrelli, G. Ranocchia

Scrittore stoico incerto, Opera incerta

(PHerc. 1020), coll. 96-103.

Edizione, introduzione e commento

Analisi di rotoli non svolti

mediante tomografia a raggi X

a contrasto di fase

Ricostruzione testuale

Sequenze di lettere

Ricostruzione testuale

Parole / espressioni

Ricostruzione testuale

Porzioni testuali

Ricostruzione testuale

Segni

(coronide)

Analisi paleografica

PHerc. 375

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Analisi di papiri opistografi

mediante Shortwave-infrared Hyperspectral Imaging

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A. Tournié et al. Sci Adv 2019;5:eaav8936

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A. Tournié et al. Sci Adv 2019;5:eaav8936

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European Research Council

Starting Grants 2009

PHerc

Interactive edition and interpretation of various works by

Epicurean and Stoic philosophers surviving at Herculaneum

Principal Investigator

Dr. Graziano Ranocchia

Host Institution

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche

Istituto per il Lessico Intellettuale Europeo e Storia delle Idee