▲So is there any way to actually read it? Or do i have to buy an obscure french book? can you even buy the book?
Academic publishing/gatekeeping is such a joke.
reply▲marginalia_nu1 hour ago
[-] It's in the picture, I presume. Just gotta brush up on that Koine Greek. Or if you read Egyptian hieroglyphs already, you can use the Rosetta Stone to reconstruct the Koine Greek from first principles.
reply▲This feels like a knee-jerk reaction. While it may be a relevant critique of some news releases about academic research… this one literally contains a thumbnail with a link to a sufficiently-high-resolution image of the document. You can read it by clicking on the only image in the article.
reply▲494 B.C.? Empedocles’ll DMCA you if you post them!
reply▲It will probably be processed into an edited edition and then published as a book.
reply▲I'm hoping in these verses Empedocles complains about crappy copper from a Babylonian merchant.
reply▲I mean, it's still a pretty cool discovery.
reply▲Probably! but how would i know?
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