>tfw you remember that the Library of Alexandria was fucking

>>2279892

the ancients were superstitious occultists with flimsy exoteric notions of the world. History is history bud

:)

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>you could of be exploring space by now

The Library of Alexandria was empty by the time it finally burned down. The "destruction" wasn't some cataclysmic event, but a gradual decay where most of its contents were copied or moved to different libraries.

>>2279996
Then where did Sappho's poetry go?

>>2279998
It's a victim of the passage of time like most ancient works. Considering Sappho lived 2500 years ago it's a miracle any of it survived at all.

>>2280025
Homer lived 2500 years ago and we still have the Iliad and the Odyssey. And she was just as popular and revered as Homer.

>>2279892
>tfw you realize the Library of Alexandria was an overrated meme.
>tfw this greater understanding of history allows for much more tragic losses like the entire Punic language, all literature of the Greco-Bactrian kingdoms, and huge swathes of African History.
>tfw virtue signalling psueds in the 21st century get mad at you when you say you don't really care about the Library of Alexandria falling into disrepair.

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>>2279892
>tfw you use your time machine to go back and read them and they're all fucking horrible and we're burned because they had no value

>>2279998
Somewhere in Literotica.

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>>2279892
Never thought about it like that desu
damn
mfw

>>2280249
My favorite is "Slaves of the Copper Coast"

Parts 1 and 2 are good. Part 3 has too much gay sex.

>>2280153

>tfw Scipio Africanus' memoirs, Hadrian's memoirs, Aristotle's works on Comedy, and lost Lucretian poetry was in there