07-13-2017, 10:04 PM
Here's a link to one the oldest known versions of any part of Homer's Odyssey, ca. 285–250 B.C.
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/09.182.50/
Note what the site states, "This is the first early Ptolemaic fragment of the Odyssey ever discovered. It contains three lines from Book 20 that do not occur in the standard text preserved today and is a physical testimony to the fact that local variations of this famous work existed in the third century B.C."
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/09.182.50/
Note what the site states, "This is the first early Ptolemaic fragment of the Odyssey ever discovered. It contains three lines from Book 20 that do not occur in the standard text preserved today and is a physical testimony to the fact that local variations of this famous work existed in the third century B.C."
Joe Balmos
