Peter Parsons

Peter Parsons is a serial papyrologist and author of City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish, about Greek lives in Roman Egypt.

In the LRB Archive:

• Diary: Rooting around Oxyrhyncus · 4 June 2015

• Eels Tomorrow, but Sprats Today · 18 September 1997

  • Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens by James Davidson

• How do Babylonians boil eggs? · 18 April 1996

  • Ancient Greek Novels: The Fragments edited by Susan Stephens and John Winkler

• Writing it down · 31 August 1989

  • Oral Tradition and Written Record in Classical Athens by Rosalind Thomas

• Learned Pursuits · 30 March 1989

  • Aulus Gellius: An Antonine Scholar and His Achievement by Leofranc Holford-Strevens

• Roman Wall Blues · 17 May 1984

  • Vindolanda: The Latin Writing-Tablets by A.K. Bowman and J.D. Thomas
  • The Christians as the Romans saw them by Robert Wilken
  • The First Urban Christians: The Social World of the Apostle Paul by Wayne Meeks
  • Life in Egypt under Roman Rule by Naphtali Lewis

• Old Flames · 10 January 1983

  • The Latin Sexual Vocabulary by J.N. Adams
  • Ovid: The Erotic Poems translated by Peter Green
  • Women’s Life in Greece and Rome by Mary Lefkowitz and Maureen Fant
  • Heroines and Hysterics by Mary Lefkowitz

• Ancient Greek Romances · 20 August 1981

• Antigone in middle age · 21 August 1980

• Cornelius Gallus lives · 7 February 1980

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