[lit-ideas] Re: classical holy grail
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 22:38:12 EDT
My first reaction, after "WOW!!", is ....when and how are these going to be
published and available to the public? On the internet? Laboriously over
years in printed books?
Julie Krueger
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http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/story.jsp?story=630165
Decoded at last: the 'classical holy grail' that may rewrite the history
of the world
Scientists begin to unlock the secrets of papyrus scraps bearing
long-lost words by the literary giants of Greece and Rome
By David Keys and Nicholas Pyke
17 April 2005
For more than a century, it has caused excitement and frustration in
equal measure - a collection of Greek and Roman writings so vast it
could redraw the map of classical civilisation. If only it was legible.
Now, in a breakthrough described as the classical equivalent of finding
the holy grail, Oxford University scientists have employed infra-red
technology to open up the hoard, known as the Oxyrhynchus Papyri, and
with it the prospect that hundreds of lost Greek comedies, tragedies and
epic poems will soon be revealed.
In the past four days alone, Oxford's classicists have used it to make a
series of astonishing discoveries, including writing by Sophocles,
Euripides, Hesiod and other literary giants of the ancient world, lost
for millennia. They even believe they are likely to find lost Christian
gospels, the originals of which were written around the time of the
earliest books of the New Testament.
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