Resurrecting the Iliad
Brent Seales says the enormity of what they were about to do hit him as the waterway opened up into the Grand Canal, and the famed Piazzetta San Marco came into view. Seales, a UK computer scientist, was a member of a team of 20 classicists, conservators and photographers from across the globe who stepped off the water taxi that day in May 2007. Their trip, the culmination of five years of negotiations, brought them to the nexus of eastern and western scholarship—the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice, Italy—to realize their goal of offering the Iliad to the world with the click of a mouse.
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