Parca Maryline G. Ptocheia, or, Odysseus in disguise at Troy: (P. Köln VI 245)

Scholars Press, 1991. — 170 p. — (American studies in papyrology 31).American Studies in Papyrology is the flagship book series for the American Society of Papyrologists. Monographs in the series include not only editions of papyri and ostraca—literary, subliterary, and documentary; Greek, Coptic, and otherwise—but also the various histories that can be written from the study of papyrological texts.The editio princeps of P. Köln VI 245, a poetic fragment that Maryline Parca dates to the third century CE, ascribes the fragment to the tragic genre and identifies it as an autograph. The text concerns a mission to Troy to contact Helen (theft of the Palladium?) and seemingly involves Odysseus, Athena, and possibly the Trojan Antenor. Parca examines text against evidence for Greek culture in Upper Egypt in the late Roman period.