Dhammanando wrote: ↑Fri Feb 01, 2019 11:48 pm
samseva wrote: ↑Fri Feb 01, 2019 5:57 pm
Do you know how all of his works perished (they were all in one place and were destroyed by a natural disaster, for example)? Or they were maybe scattered in different places and it could be possible that some of his works turn up in the future?
I don't know how it happened.
Apparently, from what I found yesterday, some parts of his works
On Providence and Logical Questions are part of the
Herculaneum papyri:
The Stoic philosopher Chrysippus is attested to have written over 700 works,[30] all of them lost, with the exception of a few fragments quoted by other authors.[31] Segments of his works On Providence and Logical Questions were found among the papyri;[31] a third work of his may have been recovered from the charred rolls.[32]
"The first of Chrysippus' partially preserved two or three works is his Logical Questions, contained in PHerc. 307 ... The second work is his On Providence, preserved in PHerc 1038 and 1421 ... A third work, most likely by Chrysippus is preserved in PHerc. 1020," Fitzgerald 2004, p. 11
However, unrolling them seems to be quite the task:
[...] the institution began a new method of unrolling. Using the 'Oslo' method, the CISPE team separated individual layers of the papyri. One of the scrolls exploded into 300 parts, and another did similarly but to a lesser extent.[1]
They are making progress, though:
Since 1999, the papyri have been digitized by applying multi-spectral imaging (MSI) techniques. International experts and prominent scholars participated in the project. On 4 June 2011 it was announced that the task of digitizing 1,600 Herculaneum papyri had been completed.[17][18]
And indeed Seales presented in 2018 readability of parts of a Herculaneum papyri (P.Herc. 118) from the Bodleian Libraries, at Oxford University, which was given by the King Ferdinand of Naples to the Prince of Wales in 1810. The imaging method Seales used involved a hand-held 3-D scanner called an Artec Space Spider.[13] The same year he demonstrated readability success of another Herculaneum scroll, with help of the particle accelerator Diamond Light Source, through a powerful x-rays imaging technique, letter ink which contains trace amounts of lead were detected. This technique could possibly open the door in reading the remaining unopened 500 Herculaneum scrolls.[13] Prior to this he demonstrated successful virtual unrolling without detecting ink on Herculaneum scrolls.[28]