More than 1,000 words, corresponding to 30 percent of the text is what has emerged from the charred Herculaneum papyrus containing the History of the Academy of Philodemus of Gadara (110-after 40 B.C.), thanks to the technological "gaze" of innovative study methodologies employed as part of the GreekSchools project. The project has received funding from the European Research Council and is coordinated by Graziano Ranocchia of the University of Pisa in collaboration with the Institute of Heritage Science (ISPC) and the Institute of Computational Linguistics "Antonio Zampolli" (ILC) of the National Research Council, and the National Library of Naples at which this papyrus, burned following the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 A.D., is preserved along with many others. In addition to investigating the state of conservation of these artifacts, the project aims to publish an updated edition - thanks to the application of imaging techniques and philological methods - of Philodemus' Review of Philosophers, the oldest history of Greek philosophy in our possession. Part of it is precisely the History of the Academy, which contains much exclusive information about Plato and the development of the Academy under his successors.
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