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2024-02-06 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Vesuvius Challenge 2023 Grand Prize awarded: we can read the first scroll!

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Posted by badanov 2024-02-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [24 views ] Top

#1 – writes here about music, food, and how to enjoy life's pleasures. In the closing section, he throws shade at unnamed ideological adversaries – perhaps the stoics? – who "have nothing to say about pleasure, either in general or in particular."

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Posted by Procopius2k 2024-02-06 07:35|| 2024-02-06 07:35|| Front Page Top

#2 CFP and Bloomberg today have articles about the success of reading burned papyrus scrolls from a Herculaneum library found in the villa of Piso, Caesars father-in-law. Using new AI techniques to virtually read the scrolls without damaging them, they have begun to read new, 2000 year old literature from the private library of Rome's elite. There may be thousands of them in this one location alone. Amazing and potentially adding enormous new insights into Roman cultural, economic and political life at the height of the Empire.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-02-06 12:48|| 2024-02-06 12:48|| Front Page Top

#3 With a little bit of luck they will find some of the 'missing' works that are referenced in surviving texts. Not earthshaking but a nice find.

Posted by magpie 2024-02-06 14:56|| 2024-02-06 14:56|| Front Page Top

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