Despite my reservations about the tone of the article (“How do we know the Epicureans were so great? Because they weren’t Christians!” More or less), I find this story utterly fascinating.
The unique library of the Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum, buried beneath lava by Vesuvius’s eruption in AD79, is slowly revealing its long-held secrets.
By way of Mirabilis.
That’s indeed utterly fascinating, and I’m looking forward to seeing what works come to light as a result.
And yes, how dully predictable the insinuation that the Christians were the chief destroyers of the Classical tradition instead of its chief preservers (as they were), and that the Christians were the biggest censors around (they weren’t).