Classics from Papyrus to the Internet: An Introduction to Transmission and Reception

A "valuable and useful" history of the efforts and innovations that have kept ancient literary classics alive through the centuries (New England Classical Journal).

Writing down the epic tales of the Trojan War and the wanderings of Odysseus in texts that became the Iliad and the Odyssey was a defining moment in the intellectual history of the West, a moment from which many current conventions and attitudes toward books can be traced. But how did texts originally written on papyrus in p...