Résumé
In this talk I introduce a new papyrus from the necropolis of Ancient Philadelphia (Fayoum Egypt) that yields hitherto unknown passages from Euripides' Ino and Polyidos. I explain how these passages advance our knowledge of the plays and develop the idea that the papyrus was a textbook for rhetorical education. No such textbook survives on papyrus, although we know a significant amount about the theory and content of rhetorical education from other sources. I argue that Ino and Polyidos were paired in the textbook because their eponymous characters were important Corinthian heroes. Material organized in this way would have been useful for composing the common speech type “The Praise of a City.” I end by considering whether such a textbook could have been used in 3rd century CE Philadelphia.
