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Recapturing a Homeric Legacy: Images and Insights from the Venetus A Manuscript of the Iliad
By Casey Dué (Editor), Marino Zorzi (Contribution by), Susy Marcon (Contribution by), Graeme D. Bird (Contribution by), Christopher W. Blackwell (Contribution by), Mary Ebbott (Contribution by), Myriam Hecquet-Devienne (Contribution by), David Jacobs (Contribution by), Ioli Kalevresou (Contribution by), Gregory Nagy (Contribution by)
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By Casey Dué (Editor), Marino Zorzi (Contribution by), Susy Marcon (Contribution by), Graeme D. Bird (Contribution by), Christopher W. Blackwell (Contribution by), Mary Ebbott (Contribution by), Myriam Hecquet-Devienne (Contribution by), David Jacobs (Contribution by), Ioli Kalevresou (Contribution by), Gregory Nagy (Contribution by)
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Marcianus Graecus Z. 454 [= 822], known to Homeric scholars as the Venetus A, is the oldest complete text of the Iliad in existence, meticulously crafted during the tenth century ce. An impressive thousand years old and then some, its historical reach is far greater. The Venetus A preserves in its entirety a text that was composed within an oral tradition that can be shown to go back as far as the second millennium bce, and the writings in its margins preserve the scholarship of Ptolemaic s...