Reposted by History nerd
Still can’t get a ticket for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey in New York? Here’s an even better plan: Head uptown to The Met to see a rare, 2,300-year-old fragment with lines from Homer’s epic, now on view at the museum.
hyperallergic.com
2,300-Year-Old Fragment of Homer’s “Odyssey” Now on View at The Met
The papyrus fragment contains three lines from Book 20 of the epic that don’t appear in the modern text.
