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The two poems came to light when the owner of an ancient ... narrowing Greek school curriculum in late antiquity and the even greater selectivity of the Middle Ages when papyrus scrolls were ...
More than 200 years ago, scholars glued the remains of an ancient papyrus scroll onto cardboard ... was misread before. For example, scholars had previously read the Greek word for "charmed." ...
In the 900 years between those notable moments, Ancient Greek culture shaped contemporary poetry, democracy, philosophy, art, theater, and language. Take Greek mythology, for example: those ...
Damaged ancient papyrus scrolls ... up 15 columns of never-before-seen Greek texts. [Related: AI revealed the colorful first word of an ancient scroll torched by Mount Vesuvius.] ...
In the case of one poem, written over 2,500 years ago by the Greek poet Sappho, scientists think they can pinpoint the time to early spring somewhere in ancient ... is an example of how we are ...
A just-deciphered ancient Greek poem discovered ... wrote this as a "poem of circumstance" when the wife of an Egyptian official died, using Poppaea and Nero as an example of two lovers separated ...
The playwright Euripides introduces us to the various forms of Ancient Greek architecture ... very creative. Take me for example. Euripides. I am one of the great Classical Athenian tragedian ...
More than 200 years ago, scholars glued the remains of an ancient papyrus scroll onto cardboard ... was misread before. For example, scholars had previously read the Greek word for "charmed." ...