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18265936 No.18265936 [Reply] [Original]

What books did we miss?

>> No.18266679
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18266679

>>18265936

>> No.18266702

Most of the Epic Cycle. Also Margites by Homer.

>> No.18266732

Too many. But who knows what the Vatican has tucked away in their archives.

>> No.18266740

>>18265936
my diary

>> No.18266754

>>18265936
"How to solve the Jewish Question."

>> No.18267927

>>18265936
Because Alexandria burned down? 0

>> No.18267950

>>18265936
Seven Ways to Coom in a Spoon

>> No.18267955

>>18266679
That's a cute doggo desu

>> No.18268004

Probably a good amount of Hermetic wisdom literature

>> No.18268054

>>18265936
About 2000 roughly identical copies of Illiad and Odyssey, probably some of the more popular plays of the hellenistic world as in the things that were preserved anyway.

>> No.18268081

Pictures of birds

>> No.18268252

>>18268054
it was actually a collection of about 200,000 works from all cultures of the Hellenistic world

>> No.18268284

50 Shades of Imhotep
sphinx fanfic

>> No.18268357

>>18268252
I was being hyperbolic but I'll be serious for a moment:
200k works =/= 200k original works. I forgot where I read it(I think it may have been Holbls' A history of Ptolemaic Empire) but at least few hundreds of them were just Illiad and Odyssey and their copies. Some original works were sure lost forever in the fires as well, but it wasn't as disastrous as people think it was.