Sui contenuti e l’organizzazione interna del P. Vindob. G 40611 (CPR XXXIII)

This article analyses the Vienna Epigrams Papyrus (CPR XXXIII) from the point of view of its content, form, and internal organisation. with its predilection for erotic, sympotic, and satirical compositions, the papyrus shows, as early as the 3rd century Ad, the presence of scoptic themes, hitherto considered to be typical of the imperial age. its great variety of meters and lengths shows that the epigrammatic form was still perceived as something ‘fluid’ and was not clearly distinguished from elegy, iambics, and sympotic σκόλια. As to its organisational principles, although the list would appear to reflect an accurate editorial project, it does not seem to extensively apply the organisational criteria of the other epigrammatic anthologies known to us via papyri or the Byzantine tradition.