Oldest surviving manuscripts of Ancient Greece and Rome
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| Apart from the charred papyrus fragments recovered in [[Herculaneum]] and the [[Oxyrhynchus Papyri]], not one single manuscript from Ancient Greece and Rome survived. | Apart from the charred papyrus fragments recovered in [[Herculaneum]] and the [[Oxyrhynchus Papyri]], not one single manuscript from Ancient Greece and Rome survived. | ||
| - | Ironically, the [[manuscripts]] that were being most carefully preserved in the libraries of [[Classical antiquity|Antiquity]] are virtually all lost. [[Papyrus]] has a life of at most a century or two in relatively [[moist]] Italian or Greek conditions; only those works copied onto [[parchment]], usually after the general conversion to Christianity, have survived, and by no means all of those. | + | [[Papyrus]] has a life of at most a century or two in relatively [[moist]] Italian or Greek conditions; only those works copied onto [[parchment]], usually after the general conversion to Christianity, have survived, and by no means all of those. |
| [[Cornelius Gallus]] is often cited as the [[oldest surviving]] [[manuscript]] of [[Latin poetry]]. | [[Cornelius Gallus]] is often cited as the [[oldest surviving]] [[manuscript]] of [[Latin poetry]]. | ||
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Apart from the charred papyrus fragments recovered in Herculaneum and the Oxyrhynchus Papyri, not one single manuscript from Ancient Greece and Rome survived.
Papyrus has a life of at most a century or two in relatively moist Italian or Greek conditions; only those works copied onto parchment, usually after the general conversion to Christianity, have survived, and by no means all of those.
Cornelius Gallus is often cited as the oldest surviving manuscript of Latin poetry.
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