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Originally Posted by Hamlet53
So the The Odyssey on the near horizon? That's sounds good.
I recently completed a book, The Archimedes Codex by Reviel Netz & William Noel, about how one of Archimedes major works barely survived to reach modern eyes despite one attempt to completely erase the only existing copy so that Medieval monks could use the parchment for copying scripture.
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That's actually precisely how many classical texts DID survive - the parchment (parchment was
extremely expensive) was re-used for a religious text. A parchment that's been re-used in this way is called a
palimpsest.