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llitchilitchi · 6 months ago

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devastating how many books of ancient literature and history have been lost. it's so hard to imagine until you actually see a list and realise that those are the works we know to be lost, just how much of it is gone that we have no idea about?

#litchi.txt #Ive taken up a lot more reading over the last months #(by reading understand: I am venturing beyond the realm of ao3)#and I mean Ive mentioned that I am reading the alexander trilogy but Im doing some research on the side as well #since I forgot like 80% of the stuff I knew about my boy since I last looked into it #and I am just. so fucking devastated to know that I have the majority of surviving sources on him. right on my bookshelf #and then I look thru the historiography of alexander on wikipedia because surely that cant be it right?#and oh. oh the amount of lost works on him alone. just the amount of books on him that we know of that are lost #the accounts of ptolemy i and his own diaries #but what of the other generals? what of the other members of the court? just how much are we missing?#and that is a single man. a man that is so well known and admired #how many smaller things are we missing?#and don't even get me started of just how difficult it is to do research into the middle ages's dark ages #things after the fall of the roman empire before the rise of a new prominent kingdom #(I am so very bothered by how little we know of Samo's Empire there is a total of one paragraph we can say about him)

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