Published on: 2025-07-15 19:02:03
The Bodleian Libraries and the Vesuvius Challenge have announced that for the first time researchers have found the title and author inside of a sealed scroll from Herculaneum. Using ‘virtual unwrapping’, the scroll PHerc. 172 which is housed at the Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford has been identified as On Vices by the Greek philosopher Philodemus. The ethical treatise, known in full as On Vices and Their Opposite Virtues and In Whom They Are and About What, provides guidance for
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