A Researcher Studying in a Dutch Library Was Amazed to Discover a Scrap of Parchment From a 1,700-Year-Old Copy of ‘The Odyssey’
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A Researcher Studying in a Dutch Library Was Amazed to Discover a Scrap of Parchment From a 1,700-Year-Old Copy of ‘The Odyssey’
The handwritten fragment contains Greek verses from Book 12 of Homer’s epic, in which King Odysseus recounts the fate of his doomed crew
A Dutch researcher discovered a small piece of slavery that remained in a collection of manuscripts in the Library of the University of Utrecht for decades, showing that it dated back to about 1700 years, and containing an apes from the twelfth book of the Oracle of the Greek poet Homer.
Homer's "Odyssee" is one of the most famous works of ancient Greece. A researcher has now made a discovery between two book pages in a Dutch library.
A Dutch researcher has discovered a 4th-century piece of parchment with verses from Homer's epic poem hidden among parchments and papyri in the Utrecht University library.
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