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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.
by aap_ 6mo ago
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.
- bombcar 6mo ago494 B.C.? Empedocles’ll DMCA you if you post them!
- pfdietz 6mo agoI'm hoping in these verses Empedocles complains about crappy copper from a Babylonian merchant.
- jblitzar 6mo agoI mean, it's still a pretty cool discovery.
- aap_ 6mo agoProbably! but how would i know?
- canjobear 6mo agoIt will probably be processed into an edited edition and then published as a book.
- marginalia_nu 6mo agoIt'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.
- sapphicsnail 6mo agoIt's not Koine and it's in verse.
- addaon 6mo agoThis 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.
- TFNA 6mo agoThis isn't ready for the general public yet. When a new manuscript is discovered, the first stage is determining readings, which obviously is a process for experts consulting among themselves. Then, an edition of the original-language text is prepared and, again, if you aren't trained in Ancient Greek the text still isn't ready for you. Only then is a translation into a modern language created. After that, you can probably read it online for free, whether through open access or the shadow libraries. Nobody is keeping anything from you.