Le raccolte di papiri storici greci e latini

This article considers the role played by papyri in the reconstruction of ancient historiography. The number of Greek and Latin literary papyri, including historiographical texts, keeps increasing, but scholars only rarely take advantage of them. The Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker by F. Jacoby includes many papyrus fragments, but they are not sufficiently exploited from a papyrological point of view. The article also describes the Corpus dei Papiri Storici Greci e Latini and explains why the Editorial Committee has sponsored this project, focusing in particular upon POxy LXXI 4808.