How Many Source Texts Survive?
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How Many Source Texts Survive?
From the actual Classical age. I've always been curious about this.
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Literary texts? None. Inscriptional evidence aplenty, but for the most part that's lists of winners in games, treaties, etc.
Somewhere in my brain is the idea that a minor orator survives from the early Hellenistic period, but neither my brain nor my google-fu can unearth the author right now.
Somewhere in my brain is the idea that a minor orator survives from the early Hellenistic period, but neither my brain nor my google-fu can unearth the author right now.
William S. Annis — http://www.aoidoi.org/ — http://www.scholiastae.org/
τίς πατέρ' αἰνήσει εἰ μὴ κακοδαίμονες υἱοί;
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