Classics from Papyrus to the Internet

A “valuable and useful” history of the efforts and innovations that have kept ancient literary classics alive through the centuries ( New England Classical Journal ).   Writing down the epic tales of the Trojan War and the wanderings of Odysseus in texts that became the Iliad and the Odyssey was a defining moment in the intellectual history of the West, a moment from which many current conventions and attitudes toward books can be traced. But how did texts originally written on papyrus in p