Archaeologists working at the Greek site of Olympia, home of the ancient Olympic Games, discovered a third-century C.E. clay tablet containing 13 lines of Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey. The discovery was made near the sanctuary of Zeus by the archaeological project The Multidimensional Site of Olympia, led by Dr. Erofili-Iris Kollia, Director of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Ilia. The tablet contains the portion of Book 14 of The Odyssey in which the cunning Greek warrior Odysseus, having spent 10 years journeying home to Ithaca after the Trojan War (with several obstacles and detours along the way), has […]
