Presentation
The seminar offers complementary Spotlights on the lecture or discussions on new texts. This year, in addition to a presentation of a new ERC project on Greco-Roman education, the seminar will look at how merchants in Tulunid Egypt prepared themselves for the trade through archives currently being edited, while a lecture on Byzantine copyists will echo the training of copyists in Late Antiquity, which will be addressed in the lecture. Finally, two new texts from the Bibliothèque nationale de France, directly linked to teaching practices in Antiquity, will provide an opportunity to discuss new digital imaging technologies that make it possible to revive erased texts in long-known manuscripts.
In addition, the papyrus of the Theban Magic Library, part of which (a set of magical recipes) was presented in last year's seminar, will once again be on the program, with the unpublished Orphic poem it contains on its recto.