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Half of all the papyri in Greek from Egypt contain the Iliad and the Odyssey.
HALF!
All the rest of the thousands of works of Greek literature and non-literary texts like letters and receipts combined make up the other half. Even after Christianity Homer's epics are the most common texts after the Bible among the surviving Medieval Greek (Byzantine) manuscripts.
That's how much those "stories" were important.
Papyrus fragment from the temple library of Tebtunis in the Fayum. The hieratic text is a composition intended to protect pharoah; on the verso is a Greek tax list. Portion of a roll formerly owned by Rev. W.F. Good and later by William Randolph Hearst.
Rare Book Collection, Detroit Public Library
The great Papyri!
For some reason I can’t find any reliable texts of the first lines of The Odyssey in the original text that was found on the papyrus scrolls. I was hoping you could help me? Searching the first lines of the odyssey in original text on a search engine didn’t work for whatever reason, all that came up was English translations
I am not sure exactly what you are looking for, dear Anon. The ancient text as we know it passed through generations via the art of copying just like books like the Bible was and we have various fragments already from antiquity (for example clay tablets or ostraca from Greece or papyri from Egypt) or even later parchment paper and all such as the Manchester Odyssey a copy of about 1700 years old rescued partially
I am aware of some papyri from antiquity that do have fragments from the first rhapsody but not the first lines in that context.
I believe some of our earliest complete books come from the 15th century for instance such as Harley Manuscript MS 6325
I am not sure what you count as "reliable" in that essence. The ancient Greek text particularly the first lines are very famous so they kinda survived the centuries because of their almost proverbial nature. This codex as you see also includes small notes on the text written in red ink.
The original text as we know it more or less corresponds to this. Obviously the ancient Greek scrolls or papyri etc must have been written in a similar manner as the Manchester Manuscript (capital letters, without any spaces etc). I am not sure why you find only English translations hehe the original Greek exists freely online in various places ^_^
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The Museo Archeologico Nazionale de Napoli is pretty spectucular.
It's a 16th Century building originally put up to house the Royal Calvary. It's definitely big enough to have held elephants, too. It was an all purpose museum but as more and more collections were sent to more specialized museums what was left at MANN was archeology.
The wooden cabinet above hold a piece of the scrolls from the House of Papyri in Herculaneum. This is one of the papyri damaged over the years as archeologists tried to unroll them.
More scrolls are housed at the The Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III where they are experimenting with using computer imaging to read the scrolls without unrolling them.
~ Literary Papyri: Cyril of Alexandria, On Adoration and Worship in Spirit and in Truth.
Date: A.D. 550-614
Period: Byzantine
Place of origin: El-Deir (Fayoum, Egypt) (?)
If I remember correctly, didn't nightmare have a legion of papyrus clones that he made?? What happened to them?
I heard something about that but I don’t know if it was canon or not, or if it’s still canon. Not sure why he ditched them (if he did), but i remember hearing around that it was because he thought papyri were idiots or something? Probably not true.