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A team of Greek and German archaeologists discovered in a clay plate in the ancient city of Olympia, the cradle of the Olympic Games in the Peloponnese peninsula, which they consider as the oldest excerpt written from the Odyssey epic poem of Homer
The plate engraved 13 verses of the 14th song, in which the hero, Ulysses (or Ulysses), speaks to his friend Eumeu. Early estimates indicate that the plaque dates from the Roman period, specifically of the third century AD according to the Greek Ministry of Culture.
The excavations of the Greek Archeology Service in cooperation with the German Institute of Archeology, near the Temple of Zeus in the ancient city of Olympia, lasted three years
Ithaca and his ten-year epic to return home after the fall of Troy have been handed down through the centuries by the oral tradition. This is the second great epic poem attributed to Homer after the Iliad .
The date of this clay plate still has to be confirmed, but the Greek Ministry of Culture says that it is still a great discovery "archaeological, epigraphic, literary and historical". If the date is correct, it is perhaps the first written record of the work of Homer discovered in Greece
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