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Herculaneum Papyri Project Catalyzes New Oxford Society

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BYU, Herculaneum Society, scholarship, documentary

Abstract

Brigham Young University’s Herculaneum papyri project continues to gain support among American and European scholars. The project’s director, Roger T. Macfarlane, an associate professor of classics at BYU, was invited to serve on the organizing board of the nascent Herculaneum Society, which was inaugurated in Oxford, England, on 3 July 2004. The society promotes inter-national attention on scholarship and fund-raising related to the ancient town of Herculaneum and its Villa of the Papyri. Together with David Arm-strong, a classics professor at the University of Texas at Austin, Macfarlane will direct the North American division of the Herculaneum Society. “There is no secret,” he says, “that the society is eager to capitalize on our project’s success.”

Recommended Citation

(2004) "Herculaneum Papyri Project Catalyzes New Oxford Society," Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship: Vol. 24: No. 4, Article 4.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/insights/vol24/iss4/4