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- The Oxyrhynchus Papyri Lxxi (online Preview)
What's New in Papyrology The following post comes from the above blog focusing on “recent publications of papyri & ostraca 4th BC-8th AD; conferences, lectures etc”. If this field is of interest, this is a very good site to bookmark. Saturday,...
- More On The Oxyrhynchus Papyri
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/05/31/features/hype.php An article which describes some of the responses to The Independent's article about the Oxyrhynchus papyri: "Unearthed from centuries-old garbage dumps in central Egypt in the late 19th century,...
- Oxyrhynchus Papyri Decoded - Important Breakthrough
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/story.jsp?story=630165 "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....
- Reading The Oxyrhynchus Papyri
This is an article on the huge dicsovery of the Oxyrhynchus papyri which contained thousands of fragment from Egypt's Greco-Roman period. The collection is so huge that it has been impossible to translate the hoard of documents. Among the documents...
- The Oxyrhynchus Papyri
The article from Biblical Archaeological Review is on the discovery of papyri at the beginning of the last century near the Upper Egyptian village of el-Behnesa. Two Oxford scholars named Bernard Pyne Grenfell and Arthur Surridge Hunt were searching the...
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Update: Oxyrhynchus Papyri and The Trojan Wars
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"In the past few weeks alone, researchers have succeeded in deciphering a 70-line fragment from a lost tragedy by Sophocles and a 30-line fragment from Archilochos, a Greek soldier-poet who chronicled the Trojan Wars.The Archilochos fragment confirms what scholars have long suspected: that the Greeks got lost on their way to invade Troy and mistakenly landed at place called Mysia. There they fought a battle, lost and had to regroup before heading off again for Troy.The Archilochos fragment will be published later this month. The newly discovered lines from Sophocles are scheduled for publication in August". See the article for more.
- The Oxyrhynchus Papyri Lxxi (online Preview)
What's New in Papyrology The following post comes from the above blog focusing on “recent publications of papyri & ostraca 4th BC-8th AD; conferences, lectures etc”. If this field is of interest, this is a very good site to bookmark. Saturday,...
- More On The Oxyrhynchus Papyri
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/05/31/features/hype.php An article which describes some of the responses to The Independent's article about the Oxyrhynchus papyri: "Unearthed from centuries-old garbage dumps in central Egypt in the late 19th century,...
- Oxyrhynchus Papyri Decoded - Important Breakthrough
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/story.jsp?story=630165 "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....
- Reading The Oxyrhynchus Papyri
This is an article on the huge dicsovery of the Oxyrhynchus papyri which contained thousands of fragment from Egypt's Greco-Roman period. The collection is so huge that it has been impossible to translate the hoard of documents. Among the documents...
- The Oxyrhynchus Papyri
The article from Biblical Archaeological Review is on the discovery of papyri at the beginning of the last century near the Upper Egyptian village of el-Behnesa. Two Oxford scholars named Bernard Pyne Grenfell and Arthur Surridge Hunt were searching the...