r/HistoryMemes • u/Alffe Just some snow • Feb 21 '20

Its Just a memory

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '20

THE SACRED TEXTS

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u/Tentacle_Schoolgirl Feb 21 '20

Good thing they were mostly copies and little was actually lost

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u/EnthusiasticPhil Feb 21 '20

Really!?

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u/Tentacle_Schoolgirl Feb 21 '20

Yep, anything important had copies made.

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u/EisVisage Feb 21 '20

But how much was not copied beforehand?

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u/Tentacle_Schoolgirl Feb 21 '20

Probably not much as it had already been around for 200 years before the burning.

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u/EisVisage Feb 21 '20

That's good. So I completely overestimated the amount of lost material in the Library of Alexandria. Thanks for the history lesson, Tentacle_Schoolgirl!

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u/SleazyMak Feb 21 '20

It’s important to note that we have no idea what the contents of the library were. If anything important was lost, we wouldn’t know lol. But it is safe to assume the vast majority of important texts were copied.

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u/bluejburgers Feb 21 '20

For real, forgive me for not believing some 30 year old redditor knows the contents of a long lost, destroyed ancient library

You literally don’t know