Practice
Your Classics!
-- Read These Ancient
Text Extracts --
Hand-inscribed Manuscripts on Modern Papyrus
With Amateur
Emulation of Ancient Calligraphy
in Latin, Greek, and Egyptian
LATIN: Plautus -- page from Bacchides
GREEK: Menander -- page from Epitrepontes
EGYPTIAN: "Book of the Dead" -- The First Arit
MORE HAND-COPIED PAPYRI OF ANCIENT TEXTS:
Apuleuis (Literary
Latin, 2nd century A.D.)
Caesar (Classical Latin)
Cicero (Classical Latin)
Euripides (Classical Attic Greek)
Eutropius (Late Empire Latin, 4th Century
A.D.)
Herodotus (Classical Ionic Greek)
Homer ("Homeric" poetic Greek--with
comments by Herodotus)
Isaiah (Septuagint Greek) and
Chronicles (Septuagint Greek and
Hebrew)
John (Koine Greek and Vulgate Latin, including palimpsest)
Lucian (Hellenistic era Attic Greek)
Luke (Koine Greek)
Lysias ? (Attic Greek)
Manetho (Hellenistic Greek)
Marcus Aurelius (Koine Greek)
Ovid (Poetic Classical Latin)
Plato's Alcibiades (Classical Attic
Greek) Plutarch's Alcibiades (Classical
Attic Greek)
More to come in the future!