Video Talk:Wax tablet
Middle Ages
wax tablets were also used in the middle ages (see the book Latin Palaeography in the Middle Ages by Bischoff). Any objections to adding this?
No objection. I've heard the same. T@nn 09:05, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Link it to your Bischoff reference. --Wetman 18:46, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
Maps Talk:Wax tablet
non sequitur in the Illiad paragraph
The first appearance of writing tablets in written Greek appears in Homer ... The written tablets are an anachronism in a narrative meant to have transpired generations before the Trojan War, ...
In the current form of the paragraph it seems that they are logically related, which they are not.
The first claim requires that we know, independently from the second claim, the chronological order of the ancient texts; and conclude thence that the Homeric texts are the oldest of those that refer to writing tablets. The second claim requires that we know, independently from the first claim, that writing tablets did not exist before trojan war; and conclude thence that mention of pre-Trojan-War writing tablets is an anachronism.
we do not know certainly the dates of the homeric texts or the trojan war, if homer or tojan war really existed or the texts really orignated from homer. if homer and trojan war really existed and he really authored the texts at all they are likely at least several centuries apart so the two claims are unrelated. and the flow and logic of the paragraph is very defective. the two claims should be mentioned in seperate paragraphs, with seperate justifications and citations. --Calm 13:42, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
Theseus
I don't understand what Theseus making an inscription on a column has to do with anything. Was the column actually made of wax? If not, why mention it? I can't understand the meaning of the inscription (it just sounds like a signpost) - does it have some meaning to do with wax tablets? The part about the "forged love letter" is presumably relevant, at least, because the letter was presumably written on a wax tablet - but even this isn't explicitly stated. The whole section about Theseus is very unclear. Card Zero (talk) 15:04, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
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