August
31
/ 2024
In a significant development for the study of ancient Greek literature, two scholars from the University of Colorado Boulder have identified previously unknown fragments of works by the famed tragedian Euripides. These fragments, unearthed from a papyrus found at an ancient Egyptian site, represent the most important discovery of Euripidean texts in over half a century. The scholars, Assistant Professor Yvona Trnka-Amrhein and Professor John Gibert, believe these fragments are from two of Euripides’ largely lost plays, Polyidus and Ino. The Discovery: A Rare Find in Classical Studies The story began in November 2022 when Basem Gehad, an archaeologist with the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, sent a photograph of a papyrus fragment to Trnka-Amrhein. The papyrus, excavated from
