SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .April 26th, 2025
#MitoBrainMap #distribution #density #diversity #BOD2 #drive-thru #"$1.2 Million" #Peri #Smog #Sundhnukagigar #"acid rain" #PM2.5 #" Mount Vesuvius" #papyri #8-micrometer #Philodemus #lightning #"gamma radiation" #TGFs #TLEs
"We can expect many more works from #Philodemus in the current collection, once we’re able to scale up this technique. But there could be other text as well — an #Aristotle dialog, a lost history of Livy, a lost Homeric epic work, a poem from Sappho — who knows what treasures are hidden in these lumps of ash.
And there is the hope of a much bigger library still in the ground, since two levels of the villa remain unexcavated."
The new possibilities of deciphering the #Herculaneum papyri with #AI will have a deep impact on our understanding of #Epicurean #philosophy as many of the up until now lost texts were written by #Philodemus who was a known Epicurean at the time and the owner of this library.
More on this in this very detailed article. The first deciphered text seems to be a treatise on pleasure and music. I'm really looking forward to the first commented editions.
The very exciting news today in #classics is that Brent Searles' team read several column-inches of a scroll charred in the 79 CE eruption of Mt. Vesuvius.
The bad news is that it's a deathly dull treatise on pleasure by #Philodemus, an Epicurean philosopher of little note.
The worse news is that he was Philosopher-in-Residence at this villa. The scrolls could be mostly or all his writing. Maybe even his drafts.
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