Peter J. Parsons

Peter John Parsons , usually abbreviated: Peter J. Parsons FBA (born September 24, 1936 in Surbiton ) is a British Graecist and papyrologist and emeritus Professor of Greek at Oxford University .

Parsons studied Classical Philology at Christ Church , Oxford , and later held the position of University Lecturer in Papyrology there. He was also the editor and director of Oxyrhynchus Papyri , a long-term research project of the British Academy, for decades . In succession to Hugh Lloyd-Jones , he was Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University from 1989 to 2003. For 2019, Parsons was awarded the British Academy's Kenyon Medal for Classical Studies .

Parsons has published numerous papyrus editions as well as articles and mishaps on individual papyri, documentary as well as literary, in particular, but by no means exclusively, on those from Oxyrhynchus . His contributions to the edition and commentary on the Aitia of Callimachus and the Platean elegies of Simonides are particularly noteworthy . Together with Hugh Lloyd-Jones, in the Supplementum Hellenisticum , a standard work, he has collected and edited the fragments of Hellenistic poetry that have largely survived on papyri. He was unable to participate in updating the work in the Supplementum Supplementi Hellenistici because it was otherwise bound, so that it was published by Lloyd-Jones alone. He has made a popular scientific sum of his knowledge accessible in his book on the city of Oxyrhynchos (Greek: city ​​of the sharp-nosed fish ).

Fonts (selection)

• Supplementum Hellenisticum. Ediderunt Hugh Lloyd-Jones and Peter J. Parsons. Indices confecit Heinz-Günther Nesselrath . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York, 1983, ISBN 3-11-008171-7 (texts and comments, 11th excerpt from Google Books ).
• Eric Gardner Turner : Greek manuscripts of the ancient world. Second edition revised and enlarged. Edited by PJ Parsons. University of London, Institute of Classical Studies , 1987 (Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, 46), ISBN 0-900587-48-2 .
• Emanuel Tov : Discoveries in the Judaean Desert, VIII: The Greek Minor Prophets Scroll from Nahal Hever (8HevXIIgr) (The Seiyâl Collection, I). With the collaboration of RA Kraft and a contribution by PJ Parsons. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1990. Table of Contents
• Alan K. Bowman , Revel A. Coles, Nikolaos Gonis, Dirk Obbink , Peter John Parsons (eds.): Oxyrhynchus. A City and Its Texts. Egypt Exploration Society , London, 2007 (Graeco-Roman memoirs vol. 93), ISBN 978-0-85698-177-7 . papyrology.blogspot.com: Table of Contents
• City of the sharp-nosed fish. Greek Lives in Roman Egypt. George Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London, 2007, ISBN 978-0-297-64588-7 .
  • German translation: The city of the sharp-nosed fish. Everyday life in ancient Egypt. Translated from the English by Yvonne Badal. Bertelsmann, Munich, 2009, ISBN 978-3-570-00459-3 .
  • French translation: La cité du poisson au nez pointu. Les trésors d'une ville gréco-romaine au bord du Nile. Traduit de l'anglais by André Zavriew. Lattès, Paris, 2009, ISBN 978-2-7096-2155-7 .

literature

• Culture in Pieces. Essays on Ancient Texts in Honor of Peter Parsons. Edited by Dirk Obbink and Richard Rutherford. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2011, ISBN 978-0-19-929201-1 . - (Festschrift)

Web links

• Page at the Faculty of Classics, Oxford University
• Culture in pieces. A conference in honor of Peter Parsons held at Christ Church, Oxford on 20th-23rd September 2006

Remarks

1. ^ Hugh Lloyd-Jones: Supplementum Supplementi Hellenistici. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York, 2005, ISBN 3-11-018537-7 (texts and comments, 26th excerpt from Google Books ).

predecessor	Office	successor
Hugh Lloyd-Jones	Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University 1989–2003	Christopher Pelling