Nikolaos Litinas email: litinasn@uoc.gr RESEARCH INTERESTS Greek and Latin Documentary and Literary Papyri, Epigraphy (inscriptions and graffiti), Greek Mythology, Ancient Greek Novel, Morphology and Phonology of the Greek Language, koine Greek, Hellenistic and Imperial Greek Prose. Ancient Greek Epigram. EDUCATION 1991-1994 PhD Classics, Department of Greek and Latin, University College London, University of London. Dissertation: Edition with Translation and Commentary of 19 Literary and 24 Documentary Unpublished Papyri from Oxyrhynchos. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Herwig Maehler. Examiners: Dr. Jennifer R. March, University College London, and Prof. Pieter J. Sijpesteijn, University of Amsterdam. 1992-93: ERASMUS Postgraduate Student, Institut für Papyrologie, Universität Heidelberg. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dieter Hagedorn. 1989-1991 MA Classics, Department of Philology, University of Crete. Thesis: Oxyrhyncha: A Village of Graeco-Roman Egypt. History, Geography, Prosopography. Supervisor: Assistant Prof. Sophie Kambitsis. 1985-1989 BA Classics, Department of Philology, University of Crete. ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT 2014- Workshop Teaching Staff, Department of Philology, University of Crete. 2003-2014 Special Technical Staff, Workshop of Papyrology and Epigraphy, Department of Philology, University of Crete. 1999-2003 Term-appointed Assistant Professor, Department of Philology, University of Crete. 1996-1999 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Philology, University of Crete. PUBLICATIONS a. Monographs 2014 Inscriptions of the cave Latsida ston Keramo. Inscriptiones Creticae "Latsidae Kerami" Antri, I.Cret.LKA, with a speleological presentation by Kostas Foteinakis and Kaloust Paragamian. Tyche Supplementband 8. Wien: Holzhausen Verlag. 2008 Tebtynis III. Vessels Notations from Tebtynis. Le Caire: Institut français d archeologie orientale. 2008 Greek Ostraca from Chersonesos, Crete. Ostraca Cretica Chersonesi (O.Cret.Chers.). Tyche Supplementband 6. Wien: Holzhausen Verlag. 1
2008 Greek Ostraca from Abu Mina (O.AbuMina). Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete - Beihefte 25. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter. b. Contributions to Collected Volumes, Festschrifts etc. 2014 Διαβάζοντας Αριστοφάνη στην άμμο της Αιγύπτου, pp. 155-75 in: Μ. Ταμιωλάκη (ed.), Κωμικός Στέφανος. Νέες τάσεις στην έρευνα της αρχαίας ελληνικής κωμωδίας, Ρέθυμνο, Εκδόσεις Φιλοσοφικής Σχολής Κρήτης (= M. Tamiolaki (ed.), Comic Wreath. New Trends in the Study of Ancient Greek Comedy, Rethymnon, Editions of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Crete. 2014 2873. Recording the Activities of a Woman, pp. 212-25 in: Fabian Reiter (ed.), Dokumentarische Texte der Berliner Papyrussammlung. BGU XX. Berlin: De Gruyter. 2012 List of Professional Groups, pp. 111-3 (no 22) in: D. Minutoli (ed.), Inediti offerti a Rosario Pintaudi per il suo 65 compleanno (P.Pintaudi), Firenze 2012: Edizioni Gonnelli. 2010 P.Oxy. LXXV 5059, 5060 (Orders to Supply Wheat) and 5063 (Letter of Castor to Demetria). 2009 Receipt for Chaff, pp. 348-51 in: Festschrift für Günter Poethke zum 70. Geburtstag (P. Poethke), Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 55/2. Berlin: De Gruyter. 2009 P.Oxy. LXXIV 4990 (Census Declaration) and 5000 (Sworn Undertaking). 2009 P.Oxy. LXXIII 4964 (List of Hamlets and Requisitioned Workers). 2009 Register of Trees, pp. 112-5 in: L. Eberhard Raimar, Holger Kockelmann, Stefan Pfeiffer and Maren Schentuleit (edd.),...vor dem Papyrus sind alle gleich! : papyrologische Beiträge zu Ehren von Bärbel Kramer (P. Kramer). Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete - Beihefte 27. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter. 2007 P.Oxy. LXIX 4740 (Customs-House Receipt), 4748, 4750, 4751 (Sales of Donkeys) and 4752 (Sale of a Colt). 2005 Strabo s Sources in the Light of a Tale, pp. 108-17 in: Daniela Dueck, Hugh Lindsay, Sarah Pothecary (edd.), Strabo s Cultural Geography - The Making of a Kolossourgia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2004 Day-to-day Account of Work, no 12, pp. 128-32 in: James M. S. Cowey and Bärbel Kramer (edd.), PARAMONE. Editionen und Aufsätze von Mitgliedern des heidelberger Instituts für Papyrologie zwischen 1982 und 2004. Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete - Beihefte 16. München/Leipzig: De Gruyter. 2004 Punctuation Matters in Some Papyri, pp. 285-8 in: Hermann Harrauer and Rosario Pintaudi (edd.) Gedenkschrift Ulrike Horak (P.Horak). Papyrologica Florentina XXXIV. Firenze: Edizioni Gonneli. 2001 P.Oxy. LXVII 4589, 4590 (Notices of Transfer of Credit in Grain) and 4591 (Account of Issue of Seed). 2
2000 A List of Household Items, no 117, pp. 487-91 in: Rudolf De Smet, Henri Melaerts, Cecilia Saerens (edd.), Papyri in honorem Johannis Bingen octogenarii (P.Bingen). Studia varia Bruxellensia ad orbem Graeco-Latinum pertinentia V. Leuven: Peeters. 1999 Ostraca Chersonessi. Preliminary Report, pp. 349-51 in: Angelos Chaniotis (ed.), From Minoan Farmers to Roman Traders: Sidelights on the Economy of Ancient Crete. Stuttgart: Steiner Verlag. 1998 P.Oxy. LXV 4490 (Receipt for ἐπικεφάλαιον πόλεως) and 4491 (Sworn Declaration). c. Journal Articles and Publications in Congress Proceedings 2014 Un nuovo papiro di palmomanzia nell Università del Michigan, APF 60: 359-362. 2014 Reading Aristophanes Amid the Sands of Egypt, CE 89: 325-348. 2014 Styles and desires in P.Oxy. 10.1291, BASP 51: 91-95. 2014 Observations on a Letter from Apollonios to Chairemon (BGU II 594), APF 60: 189-95. 2014 P.Corn. 34 recto: Just the Weft and Warp, After All!, ZPE 191: 253-5. 2013 A note on κίναιδοι in Graeco-Roman papyri, BASP 50: 283-5. 2013 Accounts concerning Work of Weavers, Tyche 28: 119-25 (Tafel 9) 2013 The expressions to annoy as used in Alexandria and to sit on a donkey, CE 88: 307-12. 2013 A Short Note on SB XXII 15793, ZPE 183: 255-7. 2011 Looking for the Λαβύρινθος: Exploring the Maze of Evidence, pp. 455-70 in: M. Ανδρεαδάκη-Βλαζάκη, Ε. Παπαδοπούλου (edd.), Πεπραγμένα Ι Διεθνούς Κρητολογικού Συνεδρίου (Χανιά, 1-8 Οκτωβρίου 2006), Proceedings of the 10 th Internatiuonal Cretological Congress (Chania, October 1-8, 2006), Τόμος Α5, Φιλολογικός Σύλλογος «Ο Χρυσόστομος», Χανιά. 2010 MP 3 2195.01: A Chreia of Olympias, ZPE 172: 197-8. 2010 P.Mich. inv. 3443, pp. 435-40 in: Traianos Gagos with Adam Hyatt (edd.), Proceedings of the 25 th International Congress of Papyrology. Ann Arbor, July 29- August 4, 2007. American Studies in Papyrology. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, Scholarly Publishing Office. 2009 Of the country, local and foreign in the Greek papyri: The Use of the Adjectives ἐπιχώριος, έγχώριος, ἐντόπιος, ξενικός, MBAH 26: 159-64. 2007 P.Mich. Inv. 1622 (= SB XVI 12589) + Inv. 1580, ZPE 163: 191-4. 2007 Habent sua fata fragmenta: Donum Borgianum, pp. 399-405 in: Bernhard Palme (ed.), Akten des 23. Internationalen Papyrologenkongresses. Wien, 22.-28. Juli 2001, 2007. Wien: Papyrologica Vindobonensia Bd. 1. 2007 Sitologi Documents Concerning Private Transactions in the Oxyrhynchite Nome, ZPE 160: 183-202. 3
2007 P.Mich. inv. 1971: A Sale of an Animal, ZPE 160: 202-4. 2007 P.Corn inv. II 38, back, pp. 559-67 and Pl. XXIII in: Jaakko Frösén, Tiina Purola and Erja Salmenkivi (edd.), Proceedings of the International Congress of Papyrology. Helsinki, 1-7 August, 2004, vol. II. Helsinki: Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum 122:2. 2007 Hierakapollon, the Title of Panos polis and the Names Ending in -απόλλων, Ancient Society 37: 97-106. 2006 Ἀττάλλιον τῆς Κρήτης, (Attalion of Crete), pp. 289-93 in: Ειρήνη Γαβριλάκη - Γιάννης Ζ. Τζιφόπουλος (edd.), Ο Μυλοπόταμος από την Αρχαιότητα ως σήμερα. Περιβάλλον Αρχαιολογία Ιστορία Λαογραφία Κοινωνιολογία. Πρακτικά Διεθνούς Συνεδρίου (Πάνορμο, 24-30 Οκτωβρίου 2003). ΙΙ: Αρχαίοι Χρόνοι. Ρέθυμνο: Ιστορική και Λαογραφική Εταιρεία Ρεθύμνου. 2006 P.Mich. inv. 4219: A Wooden Label Used as a Wooden Board and as a Mummy Label, Ariadne 12: 123-30. 2005 Learning the Letters of the Alphabet in Byzantine Egypt (Papyrus Universitatis Cretensis 5), Ariadne 11: 181-7. 2005 I.Negev. 46, Tyche 20: Korr. 526. 2004 The Lack of Linen-Weavers, BASP 41: 115-8. 2003 A Papyrus Tag? BASP 39: 97-100. 2002 Three Sales of Houses at Soknopaiou Nesos, BASP 39: 63-96. 2002 Aristophanes on a Bank Receipt (?), ZPE 141: 103-5. 2001 A Letter from the Strategos Apollonios Archive? P.Lond. inv. 1228, pp. 805-12 in: Isabella Andorlini, Guido Bastianini, Manfredo Manfredi and Giovanna Menci (edd.), Atti del XXII Congresso Internazionale di Papirologia. Firenze 23-29 agosto 1998, vol. II. Firenze: Istituto papirologico G. Vitteli. 2001 Α Corrigendum to P.Lond. inv.1228, ZPE 136: 182. 2001 Some Proposals on a Second Century A.D. Prose Fragment, APF 47/1: 50-4. 2000 Μαγικός κατάδεσμος. Β, Eulimene 1: 64-9. 2000 A Private Letter of the VI A.D., Eulimene 1: 133-40. 2000 Achilles Tatius, Leucippe and Clitophon 5.1.3, Mnemosyne 53: 347-9. 1999 Corrigendum, (N. Litinas, ZPE 124 [1999] 195-204), ZPE 128: 164. 1999 P.Lond. III 1128: Sale of a Donkey, ZPE 124: 195-204. 1999 Official Dead-lines in Roman Egypt, APF 45: 69-76. 1999 Notes on Some Papyri, APF 45: 77-80. 1999 Notes on Two Cities of the Delta, APF 45: 190-1. 1999 Strabo 17.2.4, καρπός ἄτιμος or ἄστομος? Mnemosyne 52: 479. 4
1999 SPP XX 46, r 27, Tyche 14: Korr. 313. 1998 P.Lond. III 1274c: Sale of a Calf, ZPE 120: 157-8, Tafel VI. 1997 Market-places in Graeco-Roman Egypt. The Use of the word ἀγορά in the papyri, pp. 601-6 in: Bärbel Kramer, Wolfgang Luppe, Herwig Maehler and Günter Poethke (edd.), Akten des 21. Internationalen Papyruskongresses. Berlin 13.-19.8.1995, Band II. Stuttgart/Leipzig: Teubner. 1997 Corrigenda Varia, ZPE 117: 210-2. 1997 P. Lond.inv. 1270: A Petition to an Official and a Private Letter, ZPE 119: 173-6, Tafel I. 1995 Hermou polis of the Thebais. Some Corrections and Notes Concerning its Name and Epithets, APF 41/1: 66-84. 1995 Καλλίπολις, APF 41/1: 85. 1994 Κυνῶν πόλις and Εὐεργέτις. Designation and Location of the Capital of the Cynopolite Nome, APF 40/2: 143-55. 1994 Villages and Place-names of the Cynopolite Nome, APF 40/2: 157-64. 1994 Πόλλων, Tyche 9: Korr. 120. d. Co-Authored Journal Articles 2014 with R. James Cook, A Fifth Century Receipt for the Delivery of Wheat from Karanis, APF 60: 388-392. 2012 with Stephen M. Bay, An Addition and Multiplication Table, BASP 49: 15-9. 2012 with R. Caldwell, P.Mich. invs. 4157a + 4170a: Petition and Exegetical Text on Matthew, ZPE 183: 227-33. 2009-2011 with Αναστασία Δρελιώση-Ηρακλείδου, Ροδιακό όστρακο με ερωτικό επίγραμμα, Eulimene 10-11: 135-55. 2009 with Y.Z. Tzifopoulos, Graffiti in the Melidoni Cave in Crete, Greece, pp. 142-6 in: William Blaine White (ed.), Proceedings of the 15 th International Congress of Speleology, Kerrville, Texas, July 19-26, 2009, Volume 1, Symposia, Part 1. International Union of Speleology, National Speleological Society. USA: Greyhound Press. 2005 with Johannes Foufopoulos, Crows and Ravens in the Mediterranean as Presented in the Ancient and Modern Proverbial Literature, BASP 42: 7-39. 2004 with Traianos Gagos and Nancy Priest, Homerica Varia Michiganensia, BASP 41: 39-84. e. Contributions in Exhibitions and Exhibitions Catalogues 2000 Σύγκριση Κρήτης και Αιγύπτου στους αρχαίους Ελληνες συγγραφείς, (Comparison of Crete and Egypt in the Ancient Greek Authors), pp. 226-9 in: Αλεξάνδρα Καρέτσου. (ed.), Κρήτη-Αίγυπτος. Πολιτιστικοί δεσμοί τριών χιλιετιών, Μελέτες, Ηράκλειο. On 5
f. Online Publications occasion of an exhibition at the Herakleion Archaeological Museum, November 1999 - September 2000). 2013 Bulletin of Online Emendations to Papyri 3.1 (December 19, 2013), New Editions (born digital) P.Corn. 34v. http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/md/zaw/papy/forschung/bullemendpap_3.1.pdf 2012 Bulletin of Online Emendations to Papyri 1.2 (July 25, 2012), SB 16 13000. http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/md/zaw/papy/forschung/bullemendpap_1.2.pdf 2000-present References to Sales of Donkeys in the Papyri, 3374 words. The on-line list contains all the references to sales of donkeys and updates the one published in Nikos Litinas, P.Lond. III 128: Sale of a Donkey, ZPE 124 (1999), pp. 199-204. http://www.philology.uoc.gr/ref/sales_of_donkeys/ 2000-present Prosopography of the Cynopolite Nome, 6410 words. The on-line list is a prosopography of all known persons connected with the Cynopolite Nome, Egypt. http://www.philology.uoc.gr/ref/cynopolite_nome/ g. Publications in Popular Volumes or Magazines 2010 «ἀποσταλῆναι τὸ μέλι οὗ γλυκίων ὑπάρχεις». Η γλυκιά γεύση στην ελληνορωμαϊκή Αίγυπτο, Αρχαιολογία 115 (Ιούνιος 2010): 14-7 (with summary in English The Sweet Taste in Graeco-Roman Egypt, in: http://www.arxaiologia.gr/site/content.php?artid=7031)) 2006 Πτολεμαϊκή Αίγυπτος, (Ptolemaic Egypt), pp. 180-217 in: Νίκος Βαρδιάμπασης, Σωτήρης Ριζάς (edd.), Ιστορία των Ελλήνων, Τόμος 4. Ελληνιστικοί χρόνοι, Athens. EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE 2000-present Director and Editor in-chief (with Manolis Stefanakis) of the international periodical Εὐλιμένη-EULIMENE, Studies in Classical Archaeology, Numismatics, Epigraphy and Papyrology. Published by the Mediterranean Archaeological Society, Rethymnon Crete. Vol. 1 (2000), Vol. 2 (2001), Vol. 3 (2002), Vol. 4 (2003). Vol. 5 (2004), Vol. 6-7 (2005-2006), Vol. 8-9 (2007-2008), Vol. 10-12 (2009-2011) ISNN: 1108-5800. http://www.eulimene.eu/ Reviews of the journal: Donald C. Haggis, Eulimene: Studies in Classical Archaeology, Epigraphy, Numismatics and Papyrology. 7 vols, in AJA 112.4 (October 2008), Online Publications: Book Review. http://www.eulimene.eu/critique/02_haggis.pdf François de Callataÿ, ΕΥΛΙΜΕΝΗ. EULIMENE vol. 1, in Revue belge de numismatique 147 (2001): 244. http://www.eulimene.eu/critique/callatay.pdf 2013-present Director (with Manolis Stefanakis) of the Series Εὐλιμένη-EULIMENE Supplements. Studies in Classical Archaeology, Numismatics, Epigraphy and Papyrology. Published by the Mediterranean Archaeological Society, Rethymnon Crete. Vol. 1 (2013) ISBN: 978-618-80666-0-1; vol. 2 (2014) ISBN: 978-618-80666-1-8. 6