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[prillalar]

Oxford University scientists have employed infra-red technology to open up the hoard, known as the Oxyrhynchus Papyri, and with it the prospect that hundreds of lost Greek comedies, tragedies and epic poems will soon be revealed.

Please tell me there will be Sappho. Please.


And it's Trailer Park Boys Night in Canada! Long have I awaited season five. I must say, it's a good thing I've been watching all that anime or I wouldn't have understood such scintillating dialogue as ichiban no motherfucker and Julian motherfucker yarou.

I won't post spoilers, but I have a good feeling about this season, more so than last. I feel like the boys are in a good place to work together and that's what I like to see.

If you've never seen Trailer Park Boys, it's a faux reality show (like The Office) about Ricky, Julian, and Bubbles, three dumb guys who live in a trailer park in Canada. (I think they're in Nova Scotia.) The producers describe it as "COPS from the criminals point of view". It's excessively profane and very fucking funny. Highly recommended. If you're not lucky enough to live in Canada, you can still get the DVDs from Amazon.

Epsiode titles from S1:

Take Your Little Gun and Get Out of My Trailer Park
Fuck Community College, Let's Get Drunk and Eat Chicken Fingers
Mr. Lahey's Got My Porno Tape!
Mrs. Peterson's Dog Gets Fucked Up
I'm Not Gay, I Love Lucy... Wait a Second, Maybe I am Gay
Who the Hell Invited These Idiots to My Wedding?

It's Canadian culture at it's finest.

Comments

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

Please tell me there will be Sappho. Please.

My first thought!

Oh, please...

[prillalar]

I translated a lot of Greek over the five years of my degree and Sappho was the best. I just can't think about how her work was destroyed or I get so angry.

[nightengale.livejournal.com]

Please tell me there will be Sappho. Please.

OH GOD PLEASE.

[prillalar]

I know. *hopes*

[zauberer-sirin.livejournal.com]

Please tell me there will be Sappho.

LOL

(lost literature is such a tragedy; one of the best spanish writers ever Lope the Vega is said to have writte two times more than what was actually found of him, and he was just from the 17th century)

[prillalar]

The worst is that so much of this Greek literature wasn't just lost -- it was actively destroyed. One of my Greek profs told us about reading an account by a monk who saw the last known copy of Sappho burned. I get sick thinking about taht.

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

Go Oxford students! That is so exciting. I'm all agog. I hope there's Sappho too, but I'm also intrigued by having more Euripides all of a sudden.

Most fascinating of all, though, is the possibility of more Christian texts that could wind up being considered holy in some way. How will that change the Christian religions? Will there be another schism?

[prillalar]

I bet that it won't change the Christian religions one whit. The sacred texts are sacred because they decided which ones were and which ones weren't. If these were *really* sacred, they would have been extant at that time and admitted into the canon.

See? I can still think that way. Scary.

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

Scary indeed!

[elinevere.livejournal.com]

saw this on friendsfriends.

In a dutch article in the papers it said there was Sappho. *yays*

I'm studying Ancient Greek and Latin now; I'm so going to Oxford when I've graduated...:)

[prillalar]

Oh, wow, if there are actual complete poems of Sappho... That would just be too amazing.

I did pretty much equal amounts (5 years) of Greek and Latin, but it's Greek for me every time. There's just something about it that works with my brain in a way that Latin doesn't.

[elinevere.livejournal.com]

I'm well into my 7th year of Latin and 6th year of Greek now. Greek just has this magical and musical quality even in prose that Latin completely lacks (well maybe not so much in the Aeneid...), and then there is the whole mystery thing about it. I hope there will also be some really important papyri in there, like parts from the Epic Cycle! *dares to dream*

And it's such a coincidence that I chose Papyrology as an extra course at the beginning of the year...;)

[1-mad-squirrel.livejournal.com]

Re: Papyrus contents

Thanks very much for sharing this. It is so cool.

[prillalar]

It's *really* cool.