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World Service,28 Feb 1995,13 mins

The Tracking Satyrs

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Ichneutae, or The Tracking Satyrs was a lost play by Sophocles, until fragments of it were discovered in early 20th Century Egypt. Here, academics in the British Library explain the detective work needed to transform the scraps of papyrus from "ragged autumn leaves" into translatable text.

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