Richard Janko, “The Derveni Papyrus” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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A, Aaa, Is This a Book of Mormon?
The funeral pyre itself looks as though it was burned a some time between three 50 and three 20 b c. So m in the days probably when eitherr in the time of alexander the great, before the time of his father. And the tomb was a very rich one. There was a huge, a metal, a mixing vessel, a crater with scenes of dionysus and and his worshippers on it. It was inscribed, by the way, withthe name of some one er whose father was called anyxagoras. That's about what we've got here. A, a unorthodox religious text, a interpreted in a completely bizarre manner.
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