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Scribes and Scholars - A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature (Hardcover, 4th Revised edition)
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Scribes and Scholars - A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature (Hardcover, 4th Revised edition)
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One of the remarkable facts about the history of Western culture is
that we are still in a position to read large amounts of the
literature produced in classical Greece and Rome despite the fact
that for at least a millennium and a half all copies had to be
produced by hand and were subject to the hazards of fire, flood,
and war. This book explains how the texts survived and gives an
account of the reasons why it was thought worthwhile to spend the
necessary effort to preserve them for future generations. In the
second edition a section of notes was included, and a new chapter
was added to deal with some aspects of scholarship since the
Renaissance. In the third edition (1991), the authors responded to
the urgent need to take account of the very large number of
discoveries in this rapidly advancing field of knowledge by
substantially revising or enlarging certain sections. The last two
decades have seen further advances, and this revised edition is
designed to take account of them.
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