Classics from Papyrus to the Internet David A. Craven ''The Wall Street Journal''A dynamic

''The Wall Street Journal''A dynamic

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Classics from Papyrus to the Internet David A. Craven ''The Wall Street Journal''A dynamicWinner, PROSE Award, Classics, Association of American Publishers (AAP), 2018 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 perhaps the eighth century BC survive across nearly