CLA260H1 Lecture : Lecture 5
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+written in columns, usually line in length 15-24 letters. +xenophon one of few who s works actually survived completely. +when classicists refer to fragments, they are usually physical remnants of a much larger text that was somehow destroyed. +more often they can be quotations from other texts. +ptolemy borrowed ancient texts from athenian library & gave a massive amount of insurance; he then copied all of the text and returned them (to get his insurance back) and made a library of his own: alexandrian. +menander was huge in late antiquity, although nothing survives.
