Ancient Greek and Roman Libraries
Gresham College Lectures
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Are We Going to Find Any More Lost Text?
Are we going to find any more lost text? It happens really all the time. The problem with mainland western europe is that it's too wet. We found almost all of them in much drier climates. But fortunately for us, er, both alegs, the macedonians and the romans conquered many lands with very dry sand,. Like egypt and so on. They do occasionally an we've managed to find bits of text from e er hadrians, wal er a, vindelande - again, accident burnt. Those are noti literature.
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