Epigraphic poetry: a great new discovery

Christian Marek did a very great discovery! See the article published on the University of Zurich website.

http://www.uzh.ch/news/articles/2014/124-zeilen-bisher-unbekannter-poesie-und-geschichte.html

He found in Milas a stele bearing 124 lines (trochaic tetrameters) and he dates it from the IV century BC. It seems to be the story of a man, Pytheas, perhaps the architect of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus? A book providing a full commentary is coming.