18 Oct
2010
18 Oct
'10
1:41 p.m.
From: William Donzelli
Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2010 7:43 PM
> I don't have the numbers to argue it, but my
impression was that the
> library of Alexandria was a committment of a much higher percentage
> of the available resources than any of those. If so, then it was
> "relatively" larger (although admittedly smaller absolute size).
Most archaeologists seem to agree - the holdings of
most of the
ancient libraries was 95 percent crap - bad poetry and horrid prose.
On the other hand, the archaeologists are not qualified to judge the
value of the bad poetry and horrid prose to the linguists and and to
the historians, who almost certainly will not agree with each other,
either.
(Sometimes I wish I'd never gotten involved with computers and completed
my doctorate in Indo-European linguistics instead.)
Rich Alderson
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