Discovered by a researcher the Historiae of Seneca the Elder

The director of the National Library of Naples, Francesco Mercurio, announced that the Historiae of Seneca the Elder have been discovered in Herculaneum.

A young papyrologist and researcher at the Federico II University of Naples, Valeria Piano, recognized the text of the Historiae ab initio bellorum civilium in one of the most famous Herculaneum papyri preserved in theHerculaneum Papyrus Workshop: P. Herc. 1067.

The text of Seneca the Elder narrates the first decades of the Augustus and Tiberius principates and until now there was no direct record of manuscript tradition.

Thanks to the patient work of reassembling the remnants, which are catalogued under the same inventory number and therefore come from the same scroll, studies and analyses of their contents and chronological calculations, Valeria Piano has shed light on an important papyrus.

This also confirms how Villa dei Pisoni with its library was a notable center of study until shortly before the eruption of Vesuvius.

Source: Ansa - Adnkronos

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Discovered by a researcher the Historiae of Seneca the Elder

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