Ancient Roman villa may hold world’s richest literary treasure

Mefi pointed the way to This One on the only intact library to have survived from the ancient world. A villa that probably belonged to Lucius Calpurnius Piso, father-in-law of Julius Caesar and one of the rulers of the Roman republic was buried under 30 metres of volcanic debris by the same Vesuvius eruption that wiped out Pompeii and Herculaneum way back in AD79.
They say there may be lost plays by Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus, or even the lost dialogues of Aristotle, as well as works by many other Greek writers, in the an unexplored level.

April 2, 2002 by Uncategorized 0

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