Research project
What’s wrong? Ancient Corrections in Greek Papyri from Egypt
This project looks at the Ancient Greek language from the perspective of the ordinary writer. A large corpus of more than 60.000 Greek texts on papyrus, from private letters to petitions and contracts, offers an excellent opportunity to study the Greek language as written by non-literary writers in antiquity (between 300 BCE and 800 CE). What did these writers perceive as a mistake? What did they regard as ‘correct’ Greek? How did they compose their texts?
- Duration
- 2025 - 2030
- Contact
- Joanne Stolk
- Funding
- ERC Starting Grant
In order to answer these questions this project will collect and employ an new resource: the corrections to the texts made by the ancient writers themselves. The project will create an annotated open-access database of ancient corrections in Greek papyri from Egypt, compare different genres and writers, and provide a new perspective on the Greek language in everyday use.
