logoalt Hacker News

ButlerianJihadtoday at 1:05 AM0 repliesview on HN

While the collection is now termed by modern scholars as "Book 2 of the Iliad", there was no such thing as a "book" as we know it, in those times; there were codices and scrolls and manuscripts, etc., and everyone's favorite: the palimpsest!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palimpsest