Curious Item Club: The Tragedy of You
Added 2016-07-18 08:03:42 +0000 UTCThe delicate parchment, worn to ruddy brown in its great age, is clearly fragmentary and badly damaged (showing signs of exposure to both fire and water). Any methods of dating the text or the parchment itself will demonstrate its great
antiquity.
Upon translating the archaic Greek of the text, it will be identified as a theatrical script reputedly penned by Aeschylus. Even the most casual expertise, however, will reveal that it belongs to an unknown (and presumably lost) play.
Further translation efforts will eventually find the original title of the play preserved on one of the fragmentary pages: It’s the name of the character who has discovered the manuscript.
And, indeed, as the text comes further into focus it will prove a dramatization of recent (and perhaps future?) events in the character’s life – albeit one heavily distorted and sort of mythic in character.
