The Classical World Just Refuses to Stay Dead
17th March 2012
Even if the language is dead, the classical world isn’t. New discoveries are being made all the time. Oxford’s papyrology department has 200,000 untranslated Greek papyri in its archives – so many that, last year, they asked the public to help translate them. Recently the department has unearthed new ancient curses, love potion recipes, and fragments of Plato, Herodotus and the Gospels.
Perhaps that’s because it had more life to start with than the modern world.