https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/29/herculaneum-scroll-plato-final-hours-burial-site
The fancy new technologies for reading folded scrolls have started to produce a result.
Quote from: Duncan Head on April 30, 2024, 03:38:15 PMhttps://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/29/herculaneum-scroll-plato-final-hours-burial-site
The fancy new technologies for reading folded scrolls have started to produce a result.
This is most encouraging. Let us hope that missing histories turn up while we may still enjoy them.
Fascinating example of technology allowing us to decode the past.
I like the passage about Plato's final request for a Thracian slave girl to play the flute to him - only to criticise her lack of rhythm! Oh well, it was probably difficult to find professional musicians at short notice.
At least he did not ask for a glass of wife beater (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stella_Artois#Brand_image)... ;D