The very exciting news today in #classics is that Brent Searles' team read several column-inches of a scroll charred in the 79 CE eruption of Mt. Vesuvius.
The bad news is that it's a deathly dull treatise on pleasure by #Philodemus, an Epicurean philosopher of little note.
The worse news is that he was Philosopher-in-Residence at this villa. The scrolls could be mostly or all his writing. Maybe even his drafts. @histodons @bookhistodons
