Richard Janko, “The Derveni Papyrus” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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The Cha Ge of Impiety Against Socrates
i don't think the idea has had much traction, probably because i didn't write a book about it. It seems to me there are two things going on. Who wrote this papyrus? What influence did it have? How indicative was it of the prevailing moodor itiv some somehow anomalousand,. that sort of thing? And this mystery story of this book and how much impact it has, and so forth. The cha ge of impiety against socrates represents, ah, the last, or perhaps not the last, the most significant, of of a streamof these sorts of occasions in athenian history. Maly represents a very strong tension within the athenian community between
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