Recapturing a Homeric Legacy: Images and Insights from the Venetus A Manuscript of the Iliad
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… Read more