Museum
Fondation Martin Bodmer
Private library of world literature holding papyri and a rediscovered ancient Greek comedy.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to the Fondation Martin Bodmer in Cologny, just outside Geneva, follows a scholar's desk in nineteen fifty-eight, a freshly acquired papyrus, and a play everyone assumed was lost. You will meet Martin Bodmer, the collector who built this library, and Victor Martin, the philologist given the puzzle of unrolling it. Listen for how a two-thousand-year gap in Greek comedy nearly stayed a gap.
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