From the left, William Christens-Barry of Johns Hopkins University and Roger Easton of the Rochester Institute of Technology enter data, as Keith Knox of the Boeing Corporation takes computer images. -- Ken Cedeno for The New York Times
Posted on 12/01/2006 10:05:16 AM PST by SunkenCiv
An ambitious international project to decipher 1,000-year-old moldy pages is yielding new clues about ancient Greece as seen through the eyes of Hyperides... What is slowly coming to light, scholars say, represents the most significant discovery of Hyperides text since 1891, illuminating some fascinating, time-shrouded insights into Athenian law and social history... [T]here is more to the palimpsest than Archimedes' work, including 10 pages of Hyperides, offering tantalizing and fresh insights into the critical battle of Salamis in 480 B.C., in which the Greeks defeated the Persians, and the battle of Chaeronea in 338 B.C., which spelled the beginning of the end of Greek democracy... The new Hyperides revelations include two previously unknown speeches, effectively increasing this renowned orator's body of work by 20 percent... Hyperides lived from 390 or 389 B.C. until 322 B.C. and was an orator who made speeches at public meetings of the citizen assembly. A contemporary of Aristotle and Demosthenes, he wrote speeches for himself and for others and spoke at important political trials. In 322 B.C. Hyperides was executed by the Macedonians for participating in a failed rebellion... In one recently discovered speech, Hyperides talks about the number of boats (220) -- a number not previously clear -- belonging to the Greek side in the Salamis battle, Mr. Judson said. In another speech, after the Battle of Chaeronea, he argues that the tragic defeat was the result of chance, not bad policy. In a political case Hyperides supports the Demosthenes policy that led to the Athenian defeat... Historians had always believed that the trial of Demosthenes took place before the battle of Chaeronea, which Athens lost to the Macedonians, but the newly discovered speech shows that it was after the battle.
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From the left, William Christens-Barry of Johns Hopkins University and Roger Easton of the Rochester Institute of Technology enter data, as Keith Knox of the Boeing Corporation takes computer images. -- Ken Cedeno for The New York Times
X-rays reveal Archimedes secrets
BBC News | 2 August 2006 | Jonathan Fildes
Posted on 08/02/2006 4:45:46 PM EDT by my_pointy_head_is_sharp
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Archimedes' hidden writings revealed with particle accelerator (Stanford)
ap on San Diego Union - Tribune | 8/4/06 | Terence Chea - ap
Posted on 08/04/2006 10:39:30 PM EDT by NormsRevenge
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