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The Library of the Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum

David Sider, 2005. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.

A short scholarly account of the villa, its excavation in the eighteenth century, the attempts to open the rolls, the authors and works recovered, and the case for further papyri in the unexcavated parts of the villa.

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Background on the excavation, the contents of the opened rolls and the villa's ownership.

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Sider, D. (2005). The Library of the Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. https://doi.org/10.1108/00242530610682245
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