Piece of 1,700-Year-Old Odyssey Discovered in Utrecht
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cedarnews.netAn approximately 1,700-year-old fragment of the Odyssey has been discovered in the Utrecht University Library. Researcher Mark de Kreij of Radboud University Nijmegen found the piece of parchment two years ago while conducting research in the university's collection of ancient manuscripts. The Odyssey is one of the most famous stories in Greek mythology. Utrecht University is only now announcing the find. According to the university, it aligns …
Fragment, dated between the third and fourth centuries, contains verses from Book XII of the work.
The Utrecht University Library in the Netherlands announced on Tuesday that they have discovered a small fragment of Homer's Odyssey that is about 1,700 years old. It is a rare copy, the Dutch institution said, of which only about thirty similar ones are known in the world.
One researcher recognized some characteristic words of Homer's epics and an analysis made it possible to determine that they corresponded to the book XII of La Odyssey.
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