PREFACE

This part, like XXXVI, contains contributions by a number of scholars. New literary texts are represented by a scrap of Tyrtaeus (2824) and some pieces of the Phasma original: "Apparition" of Menander (2825), edited by E. G. Turner; and a small number of tiny fragments of New Comedy (2826-8), presentation of which is due to Dr. Marcia Weinstein. 2829-31 are identified pieces of New Comedy, edited by one or other of the foregoing. Dr. Gerald Browne has undertaken the edition of two separate copies of the Sortes original: "lots or oracles" of Astrampsychus (2832-3) and of a number of documentary texts. Other documents are edited by R. S. Bagnall, J. C. Shelton, J. D. Thomas, and Dr. Weinstein.

In addition the volume contains the publication of a number of texts studied in a seminar held in the University of Cambridge in 1966/7. Among these special mention should be made of 2857, a draft of a Roman will, for which the late Professor A. H. M. Jones and Mr. John Crook take responsibility; the draft manumission 2843, published by Miss Joyce Reynolds, with contributions from Dr. Michael Crawford; the parangelia official instruction or order contained in 2852, published by Messrs. R. F. Tannenbaum and P. A. M. Seuren. The series 2834-2846 contains all the documents identified as belonging to the Archive of Komon.

In the final stages of proof-reading it was observed that 2858 had been classified as a ‘private document’, whereas its proper place should have been under ‘official documents’. It was then too late to alter the make-up of the book. Mr. W. E. H. Cockle has given valuable help in correcting the proofs.

Dr. Weinstein wishes to thank Professor Paul Mertens for information on third-century Oxyrhynchite prosopography. Dr. John Rea made the index. The general editors wish to thank the compositors and staff of the Oxford University Press for their customary care.

May 1971

P. J. PARSONS
J. R. REA
E. G. TURNER
General Editors of the
Graeco-Roman Memoirs