摘要：Mario Capasso first announced plans for a corpus of Greek and Latin historical papyri (Corpus dei papiri storici greci e latini, referred to here as CPS) at the st International Congress of Papyrology in Berlin in .1 The stated aims of CPS were to offer updated, modern editions of historical papyri, aid bibliological research into ancient books, elucidate the relationships between ancient and medieval traditions of known authors, and outline processes of transmission from late antiquity to the Middle Ages. These goals, which are admittedly focused more on book production and transmis-sion than on historical research, necessarily implied an audience beyond pap-yrologists, who are accustomed to the specialized studies in which such papy-rus fragments are normally discussed. The three volumes under review—B.. (= Livy), B.. (= Sallust), and B. (= adespota)—represent Rodolfo Funari’s contribution to the lofty aims set forth by Capasso.2 In them, Funari lays out the papyrological evidence for two known Roman historians, Livy and Sallust, which total ten textx, plus three containing historical works by unknown au-thors. In sum, he spends nearly pages on these thirteen papyrus and parch-ment fragments, meticulously treating points of paleography and codicology,the relationship of the fragments to later traditions, as well as issues of historical interest. On the whole, Funari admirably fulfills the promise of the series.
