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Previously unknown verses by Empedocles found on papyrus

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Re: Previously unknown verses by Empedocles found on papyrus

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Post by pfdietz »

aap_ wrote: post #2

So is there any way to actually read it? Or do i have to buy an obscure french book? can you even buy the book? Academic publishing/gatekeeping is such a joke.

I'm hoping in these verses Empedocles complains about crappy copper from a Babylonian merchant.

Re: Previously unknown verses by Empedocles found on papyrus

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Post by aap_ »

jblitzar wrote: post #5
aap_ wrote: post #2

So is there any way to actually read it? Or do i have to buy an obscure french book? can you even buy the book? Academic publishing/gatekeeping is such a joke.

I mean, it's still a pretty cool discovery.

Probably! but how would i know?

Re: Previously unknown verses by Empedocles found on papyrus

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Post by canjobear »

aap_ wrote: post #2

So is there any way to actually read it? Or do i have to buy an obscure french book? can you even buy the book? Academic publishing/gatekeeping is such a joke.

It will probably be processed into an edited edition and then published as a book.

Re: Previously unknown verses by Empedocles found on papyrus

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Post by marginalia_nu »

aap_ wrote: post #2

So is there any way to actually read it? Or do i have to buy an obscure french book? can you even buy the book? Academic publishing/gatekeeping is such a joke.

It's in the picture, I presume. Just gotta brush up on that Koine Greek. Or if you read Egyptian hieroglyphs already, you can use the Rosetta Stone to reconstruct the Koine Greek from first principles.

Re: Previously unknown verses by Empedocles found on papyrus

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Post by amelung »

I think the image shown at the top right is the entire text that was discovered: because if you count all the lines (including even the ones where no mortal can see actual letters), you get 30. I admire the experts who can make sense out of it. Words are not separated by blanks. The first line in the second column may start with «ΚΑΙΤΟΙ ΠΩ…» ‹and yet wh…›. Below that perhaps «Η ΜΕΙΖΟΝ …» ‹or greater›. Further below even I can read clearly a «ΦΑΙΝΕΤΑΙ» ‹he / she / it appears›. Even further down I read «ΚΑΙ ΔΙΑ ΤΟΥΤΟΥ» ‹and through / per / via this›.
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