Poetry as Initiation: The Center for Hellenic Studies Symposium on the Derveni Papyrus

The Derveni Papyrus is the oldest known European "book." It was meant to accompany the cremated body in Derveni Tomb A but, by a stroke of luck, did not burn completely. Considered the most important discovery for Greek philology in the twentieth century, the papyrus was found accidentally in 1962 during a public works project in an uninhabited place about 10 km from Thessaloniki, and it is now preserved in the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674726766
• ISBN13: 9780674726765
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"