{"id":90240,"date":"2024-10-27T02:00:03","date_gmt":"2024-10-27T06:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=90240"},"modified":"2024-10-26T08:45:47","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T12:45:47","slug":"reading-the-herculaneum-papyri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/10\/27\/reading-the-herculaneum-papyri\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading the Herculaneum Papyri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gs1Z-YN1aQM?si=DWuekgWLwi0eXmdq\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Toldinstone Footnotes<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished Jul 5, 2024<\/p>\n<p>On this episode of the Toldinstone Podcast, Dr. Federica Nicolardi and I discuss the challenges of reading scrolls charred and buried by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. <\/p>\n<p>Chapters:<br \/>\n00:00 Discovery of the scrolls<br \/>\n03:23 Opened and unopened<br \/>\n05:17 How to handle charred papyrus<br \/>\n09:11 New texts<br \/>\n13:17 Philodemus of Gadara<br \/>\n16:04 Epicurean philosophy<br \/>\n20:20 The library in the Villa of the Papyri<br \/>\n24:05 The Vesuvius Challenge<br \/>\n25:56 Progress so far &#8230;<br \/>\n28:44 The newest text<br \/>\n30:06 What comes next<br \/>\n34:20 What&#8217;s still buried?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toldinstone Footnotes Published Jul 5, 2024 On this episode of the Toldinstone Podcast, Dr. Federica Nicolardi and I discuss the challenges of reading scrolls charred and buried by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. Chapters: 00:00 Discovery of the scrolls 03:23 Opened and unopened 05:17 How to handle charred papyrus 09:11 New texts 13:17 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,339,16,15],"tags":[288,1073,1536,576,1343,132],"class_list":["post-90240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-italy","category-science","category-technology","tag-archaeology","tag-epicureanism","tag-herculaneum","tag-philosophy","tag-romanempire","tag-volcano"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-ntu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90240"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92063,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90240\/revisions\/92063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}