Reading texts written by the ancients is always fascinating to me. It pains me to know that most of what they have written has not reached us. By most estimates, only 1% to 5% of classical texts survive today.
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But it is likely that the 1-5% that survived are the best of them. Gives some solace.
It is not clear to me that we have the best books from that time. A lot of what the Alexandrian librarians considered to be "classics" from before 250 B.C. has not reached us.
