See a story at http://cpart.byu.edu/bottom_herc.html on new techniques for unraveling Herculaneum scrolls, including this statment by BYU chair of Classics Roger Macfarlane (whose colleague has come up with the method):
"When the texts were first brought to light, there was a little disappointment as scholars were looking for the Aristotle texts and other texts that we know existed but we've lost," says Macfarlane, who is working with Kleve to read one of the Latin Herculaneum scrolls. "But the possibility still remains that the Herculaneum villa has for us complete texts of Aristotle or Sappho or Alcaeus or of several other Greek and Latin authors whose works have only survived in fragments or not at all," he says. There is another similar story, from Feb 2001, but perhaps with some confusion about which manuscripts scholars would like to find and what they've actually found, at http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=55573 -- Jim O'Hara Paddison Professor of Latin 206B Howell Hall (919) 962-7649 fax: (919) 962-4036 [EMAIL PROTECTED] James J. O'Hara Department of Classics CB# 3145, 101 Howell Hall The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3145 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub
