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Papyrus with Euripides fragments
Courtesy Yvona Trnka-Amrhein
Courtesy Yvona Trnka-Amrhein

1 posted on 09/06/2024 1:37:12 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

Very cool. Now if only there was a way to unroll and read the charred scrolls of Pompeii.


3 posted on 09/06/2024 1:40:43 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Euripedes pants, Eumenides pants.


5 posted on 09/06/2024 2:04:06 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America.)
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To: SunkenCiv

8 posted on 09/06/2024 2:58:59 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Brandon's pronouns: Xi/Hur)
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To: Fred Nerks
They found the old scroll you wrote way back when...........



9 posted on 09/06/2024 3:18:55 AM PDT by Candor7 (Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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To: SunkenCiv

This text may have been used to teach new readers, since some of the words had been broken into their component syllables,

Think I see the problem: they learned to read classic Greek works and we had Fun With Dick and Jane...


10 posted on 09/06/2024 3:22:11 AM PDT by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Man I love papaya maybe more than peaches.


13 posted on 09/06/2024 4:31:27 AM PDT by waterhill (I Believe! Eph. 5:11)
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To: SunkenCiv

Man I love papaya maybe more than peaches.


14 posted on 09/06/2024 4:38:45 AM PDT by waterhill (I Believe! Eph. 5:11)
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To: SunkenCiv

Still Greek to me.


15 posted on 09/06/2024 5:08:26 AM PDT by Kenny500c ( )
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To: SunkenCiv

...”The lines come from two lost plays: Ino, a revenge tragedy involving two wives of the Thessalian king Athamas; and Polyidos, a moralistic tragedy on the nature of power, money, and governance featuring King Minos.”...

Sounds like Hollywood and Washington DC...................


17 posted on 09/06/2024 5:25:20 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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