How much literary value did we lose with the multiple sackings

>>9331691
lots

>We've lost a lot of Sophocles
To be entirely honest Sophocles is repetitive and formulaic enough I'd be satisfied with Philoktetes and Oedipus Rex.

>>9331699
Shut the fuck up.

>>9331691
As to how much we kept of all of Antiquity's works, estimates range from five (5) to ten (10) percent.

>>9331691
Don't forget Sappho, who had a huge multi-volume critical edition of her poems in Alexandrea but only one of her poems survives intact and the rest are fragments.

Also the Pre-Socratics, Menander, and everything written in the Punic language.

Daily reminder many of the records lost from the Library of Alexandria are mundanities, and more of interest for historians then students of aesthetics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes_Palimpsest

>This medieval Byzantine manuscript then traveled to Jerusalem, likely sometime after the Crusader sack of Constantinople in 1204.[7] There, in 1229, the original Archimedes codex was unbound, scraped and washed, along with at least six other parchment manuscripts, including one with works of Hypereides. The parchment leaves were folded in half and reused for a Christian liturgical text of 177 pages; the older leaves folded so that each became two leaves of the liturgical book. The palimpsest remained near Jerusalem through at least the 16th century at the isolated Greek Orthodox monastery of Mar Saba. At some point before 1840 the palimpsest was brought back by the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem to their library (the Metochion of the Holy Sepulcher) in Constantinople.

>If it weren't for christiancucks we would be hundreds of years further into technological development.

all those lost texts on Greco-Buddhist thought, all those lost Hermetic manuscripts, all those Neo-platonic and proto-Christian scrolls gone forever. feelsbadman

Not only chance and blind fortune have presided over the preservation of certain manuscripts ; human choice, and especially human taste, also did.
We have most likely kept the best.

>>9332146
Or maybe, there were ancient manuscripts that were so profound, that the elites destroyed them in fear of their power.

>>9332162
I don't think so.

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>Pynchon's entire corpus barring Vineland will be lost in the Great Meme Purge of 2136

>>9331691
qin shi huang founded modern china, fuck books.

>>9332146
Being this bluepilled.

>>9332162
This.