{"id":232,"date":"2001-03-24T23:00:14","date_gmt":"2001-03-24T22:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/blog\/?p=232"},"modified":"2011-03-21T00:28:53","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T23:28:53","slug":"herculaneum-papyri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/?p=232","title":{"rendered":"Herculaneum Papyri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most interesting news to me was the existance of research on papyri from Herculaneum (Pompeii) by <a title=\"Bio on Richard Janko\" href=\"http:\/\/www-personal.umich.edu\/%7Erjanko\/janko.html\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Janko<\/a> of the University College London. It appears that thanks to new digital  scanning technics (archeological MSI) it is possible to read texts that  survived the eruption of the Vesuvius. See the <a title=\"UCLA page on the Philodemus Project\" href=\"http:\/\/www.classics.ucla.edu\/index.php\/philodemus\" target=\"_blank\">Philodemus Project<\/a>. The <a title=\"1996 Inaugural lecture Richard Janko at University of London\" href=\"http:\/\/replay.waybackmachine.org\/20080324045831\/http:\/\/www.rhul.ac.uk\/Classics\/CUCD\/janko.html\" target=\"_blank\">Inaugural Lecture<\/a> of Janko (October 1996) emphasizes the importance of knowledge of the Ancients, especially the Greeks:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The classical Greeks had no sacred text, no Bible or  Koran, whose meaning had to be fought over in struggles for ideological  or religious dominance. This is the most important fact about them;  together with their political fragmentation into independent  city-states, separated from each other by inlets, seas and mountains,  this lack created that atmosphere of open debate about ideas &#8211;  political, religious and philosophical &#8211; which led after long delays and  detours to the rise of modern civilization.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Somehow this reminds me of the Internet, with its fragmentation and debates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most interesting news to me was the existance of research on papyri from Herculaneum (Pompeii) by Richard Janko of the University College London. It appears that thanks to new digital scanning technics (archeological MSI) it is possible to read texts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/?p=232\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}