Dirk Obbink, a leading papyrologist at the University of Oxford, - TopicsExpress



          

Dirk Obbink, a leading papyrologist at the University of Oxford, announced that he had recovered substantial sections of two never-before seen poems by Sappho. Widely admired and studied in antiquity, Sappho was known as the Tenth Muse, and her poetry was collected into nine books at the Library of Alexandria. But today, most of her first-person descriptions of love and longing are read in tantalizing bits and pieces. Obbink said he would further examine the manuscript with a noninvasive technique called multispectral imaging, which allows researchers to take very high-resolution photographs with multiple wavelengths of light.
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 11:52:47 +0000

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