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Classics from Papyrus to the Internet

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

Classics from Papyrus to the Internet

By Jeffrey M. Hunt, R. Alden Smith, Fabio Stok

2 Ratings • 3.5 of 5

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About the book

Winner, PROSE Award, Classics, Association of American Publishers (AAP), 2018Writing down the epic tales of the Trojan War and the wanderings of Odysseus in texts that became the Iliad and the Odyssey was a defining moment in the intellectual history of the West, a moment from which many current conventions and attitudes toward books can be traced. But how did texts originally written on papyrus in perhaps the eighth century BC survive across nearly three millennia, so that today people can read...Show more

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9781477313022

Publisher

University of Texas Press

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2017

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Classics from Papyrus to the Internet

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Paperback

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