You Can Now See One of the Oldest Surviving Copies of 'The Odyssey' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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This summer, as one of the world’s oldest poems—Homer’s Odyssey—resurfaces in the public imagination via the silver screen, a rare artifact related to the epic is returning to the spotlight, too. The object in question is a papyrus fragment dated to the early Ptolemaic period.
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This summer, as one of the world’s oldest poems—Homer’s Odyssey—resurfaces in the public imagination via the silver screen, a rare artifact related to the epic is returning to the spotlight, too. The object in question is a papyrus fragment dated to the early Ptolemaic period. The first of its kind ever discovered by archaeologists, the Odyssey excerpt recently went back on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, where it’s displayed alongside six other artifacts that “bring this famous Greek story to life in dynamic and surprising ways,” per the cultural institution’s website. The roughly 2,300-year-old fragment is from one of the oldest surviving copies of The Odyssey.
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You Can Now See One of the Oldest Surviving Copies of 'The Odyssey' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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