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[strange_complex]

Taken from aletharch, and reposted here because it's fantastically important:

New Classical texts being deciphered from the Oxyrhynchus archive at a rate of knots!

I think I probably need to go and lie down for a bit while I take the implications of this on board.

Comments

[kaz-pixie.livejournal.com]

that does sound hugely interesting and exciting actually - even for me, and i'm not even being sarcastic.

[swisstone.livejournal.com]

I was reading about this over at a colleague's this afternoon. Fascinating stuff, and it will be interesting if there's more of how Sophocles handled the whole Seven Against Thebes myth.

[jessica-phoenix.livejournal.com]

How incredibly exciting!!! I was so sad to hear about Professor Lyne though :(

[mejoff.livejournal.com]

Squeeee!!

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

Ah! I was a bit surprised!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

This makes me happy.

[ladyguinevere83.livejournal.com]

That looks really fascinating! Hopefully there'll be something for those of us not particularly up on the subject :-)

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

The first publications of the texts will be in Greek, but you can rest assured that anything really important will be translated pretty quickly as well.

[rosamicula.livejournal.com]

According to the Sunday Indy it could double teh amount of classical 'pulp fiction' - populist, trashy stuff apparently - available to scholars. Marvellous.

[mejoff.livejournal.com]

I'm actually quite excited about it too!

[angeoverhere.livejournal.com]

*Please* keep us updated as and when interesting finds/translations get announced, as they're unlikely to make the news after a while.

I'd heard there were some early christian texts in there too - am wondering if there's going to be anything as heretical as the gnostic stuff.