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Phaistos Shocker!

2006-06-09T15:53:00.000-06:00

[Ed.: Breaking News: Fragmentary Poets present this exclusive first-run world edition of the first, ever correct translation of the Phaistos Disk. Keep checking this site for updates and coverage of the world’s reactions.]The Phaistos Disk is not written in Modern Greek!Dr. Bruno Fabrizio has returned from Crete with this shocking news. According to Fabrizio’s groundbreaking paper, which was

The Epistle of Amber, a translation submitted

2006-06-06T13:47:00.000-06:00

[Ed.: E. W. Ruddybottom-Jones, a graduate working no doubt assiduously towards completion of his DPhil dissertaion at the University of Blackpool, has offerred the following translation of the section of Amber's Epistle as released by The Secret Priory. The numerical referencing and commentary, such as it is, is also Mr Ruddybottom-Jones's.]Amber's Letter to Mary Magdalene, trans. E. W.

The Secret Priory (il segretissimo Codice del Saliano)

2006-05-23T17:15:00.000-06:00

[Ed.: Fragmentary Poets have been uncommonly fortunate to receive this text. We were instructed to go to the Gard du Nord in Paris and try to buy a TGV ticket to Biarritz from the fourth window. (No TGV goes to Biarritz nor does any train from the Gard du Nord--this was to be the sign.) At that point, two men in fancy dress (one as a WWI-era pilot, the other as a veruca) approached me and told

CPF: ISIM Annual Conference, DEADLINE EXTENDED

2006-05-12T15:13:00.000-06:00

The Organizing Committee of the 7th Annual Conference of the International Society for Interpretive Mimetics has been authorized by the ISIM Executive Organ of Grand Councillors and Other Animals to extend the deadline for submissions to, like, anytime someone wants to submit something.There have been some suggestions left anonymously that perhaps the conference ought to be held instead in

Codex Walgreenensis (Chicago) 2

2006-05-07T14:55:00.000-06:00

[Ed.: This is the second portion of text released from the sequestered community of brilliant, young scholars who have come to be known as “The Chicago Project.” The lead editor and commentator is still beyond definitive identification. Fragmentary Poets do have one well placed source in The Chicago Project. He can only confirm that an unusually high proportion of Diet Coke is consumed there

frag. XXXXX(b)

2006-05-07T13:52:00.000-06:00

[Ed.: Dr. Bruno Fabrizio has authorized us to publish this work in progress on the condition that Fragmentary Poets do not reveal the source of the fragment or its current location. Dr. Fabrizio asked that Fragmentary Poets function as an open forum for the scholarly community on any possible reactions or conjectures, and we are pleased to do so. We ask readers to submit any remarks or

Codex Walgreenensis (Chicago)

2006-04-22T16:08:00.000-06:00

Faber(?) 1-8[Ed.: I am very pleased to have secured a a copy of this work-in-progress. In fact, the very existence of this text has been well kept beneath any word of confirmation. I cannot reveal the editor and commentator; any faults in the text I will assume myself. Presently I make this text known for the greater enrichment of the scholarly community.]Codex Walgreenensis (Chicago)The

CFP: ISIM Annual Conference

2006-04-13T11:48:00.000-06:00

[ed.: From time to time, Fragmentary Poets will post calls for papers as a service to the professional communities of papyrology and classical philology. All standard apologies for cross-posting, etc., are given.]The 7th Annual Conference of the International Society for Interpretive Mimetics12-29 July 2006 in Kyustendzh, RomaniaCall for PapersSubmission of AbstractsThe Organizing Committee is

pseudo-Bacchylides 1 (P. Oxon. 3 Bodleian)

2006-04-12T13:36:00.000-06:00

[ed.: I am very grateful to Oxford University Press for allowing me to post a pre-press copy of the following.]pseudo-Bacchylides 1 (P. Oxonensis 3 Bodleian)Text, Prolegomena, and Commentary by Bruno Fabrizio, Università di Bologna & NUI Blarney. . .]με καὶ τὰ[. . .. . . ]χελῶνα[ . . .. . . ]δὲ τὴν πο[ . . .. . . μ]ετὰ τὸν Θησ[ . . .. . . ]άων τινων[ . . .5. . . ]ντα μὲν τοῦ ι[ . . .. . . ]υθεῖσα

P. Oxyrhynchus 7819b Zimmermann

2006-04-10T17:07:00.000-06:00

ta]lis iactabat †clamorem† in me atque etiam ungues li]mine perstantem sola puella mea1 talis] talis Zimmermann : mollis Ruddybottom-Jones : fortis corr. Stahl, forte recte clamorem] clamorem Handschuhputz : digitum atque Pozzo2 limine] limine Zimmermann : flumine Ruddybottom-Jones : fulmine Stahl"That's just how she was hurling a shout at me and even her