Marcianus Graecus Z. 454 [= 822], known to Homeric scholars as
the Venetus A, is the oldest complete text of the "Iliad" in
existence, meticulously crafted during the tenth century ce. An
impressive thousand years old and then some, its historical reach
is far greater. The Venetus A preserves in its entirety a text that
was composed within an oral tradition that can be shown to go back
as far as the second millennium bce, and the writings in its
margins preserve the scholarship of Ptolemaic scholars working in
the second century bce and in the centuries following. Two thousand
years later, technology offers a new opportunity to rediscover this
scholarship and better understand the epic that is the foundation
of Western literature. The high-resolution images of the manuscript
that accompany these essays were acquired by a multinational team
of scholars and conservators in May 2007.
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