Comments on: Beware of Greeks bearing scripts

By: Scott Martens

Scott Martens — Fri, 14 Nov 2003 22:46:42 +0000

Chris: I stand corrected. I studied the Greeks so long ago that Socrates taught my prof. I’ve forgottten a bit.

Greg: I remember my world history prof - who had done a bit of digging in the Pacific northwest in his youth - saying that arecheology wasn’t usually about forbidden palaces and tombs, it was mostly about sifting through dead people’s garbage.

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 14 Nov 2003 20:38:45 +0000

Menander’s works turned up in this fashion through the twentieth century, albeit in a rather fragmentary form.

And, curiously, that’s basically how Cleopatra’s signature was found in Berlin a couple of years back.

By: chris

chris — Fri, 14 Nov 2003 19:01:43 +0000

Don’t want to seem picky, but Agamemnon forms part of the complete trilogy, Oresteia, with Choephoroi and Eumenides. None of the Trojan trilogy has survived, so this is pretty exciting if you like that kind of thing.