On January 22, I had the pleasure to give a lecture at the Weston Library in Oxford for the Friends of the Bodleian about the fate of one of the papyri at the centre of my recent book, Stolen Fragments: Black Markets, Bad Faith, and the Illicit Trade in Ancient Artefacts.

The lecture is now available on YouTube, and I’d be happy to answer any questions you might have here, using the comments below. As you will discover watching the video, there is a disturbing twist in the post-book story of the New Sappho largest and most important fragment, the only extant copy of the so-called Brothers Poem…