6 minutes agoHomer's Oldest Writing Discovered
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)Excavations under way in collaboration between Greek Archaeology Services and German Institute of Archaeology in the ruins of the ancient town of Olympia have served in an amazing find. It is a clay tablet in which 13 verses of Odyssus are recorded. Analysis has shown it belongs to the century III Before Christ, something [...]
Analysis has shown it belongs to the century III BC, which makes this passage into the oldest preserved by Homer's work.
The found verses belong to the 14th Song of Odyssse and confirm the moment at which Ulysses arrives on the island of Itaka, dressed as a beggar and meets with his faithful servant, Eumeo.
Odyssse relates Ulysses' return home at the end of the Troy war on an epic trip that would last 10 years. Researchers believe that this work has been transmitted orally to the vicinity of the century V III BC, the period in which it was written.
However, none of these first versions have been preserved. Before this discovery was made, the most ancient version of this story is one of the pre - Christian Aztecs Aristarchus of Samestercia. / world.al
