Richard Janko, “The Derveni Papyrus” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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Did You Know That Diadorus Changed the Names of the Gods?
Diagoras was a poet who believed in the gods to start with. But then somebody plagiarized one of his poems and took it over without permission. Diagorus, according to the story, got angry about this and started to write a book against the gods. He apparently wrote a book that disclosed things about the mysteries at eleusis.
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