NEW DISCOVERY REVEALS TRHIVING POP CULTURE IN ANCIENT GREECE.

   A new discovery by a British archaeologist at UK's Cambridge University reveals that in ancient Greece there was a thriving pop culture. 

Professor, Tim Whitmarsh, studied a little-known text, written in ancient Greek, showing that stressed poetry, the ancestor of modern poetry and song was already in use in the 12th century BC 300 years earlier than what was previously thought. 

Short syllables characteristic of traditional "quantitative verse" this text employed stressed and unstressed syllables. 

Until now, "stressed poetry"  of this kind has been unknown before the 5th century when it began to be  used in Byzantine Christian hymns 

Professor Whitmarsh told Cambridge University magazine "You didn't need specialist poets to create this kind of musicalized language, the diction was very simple, so this was clearly a democratizing form of literature.  We are getting an exciting glimpse of old pop culture that lays under the surface of classical culture."

This new study published in the "Cambridge Classical Journal" also suggests that this poem could represent a "missing link" between the lost world of ancient Mediterranean poetry and the modern forms we know today,            

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