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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Blake Davis, post: 26446366, member: 91820&quot;]Exactly -&nbsp; it Hrrek to some extent as well - Plutarch and others wrote so that great deeds of men should not be forgotten and as examples to others. Or was that someone else? Julius Caesar to celebrate his exploits for political purposes, Thucydides “for all time”. Livy wisely did not write about the more recent times until Augustus was dead but alas those books have not survived, not even fragments or extremely few.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;The sheer number of lost works is depressing - I’m reading Athenaeus who refers to title after title of lost works. Maybe if they learn how to read the burnt scrolls of Pompeii we might be able to recover something else - I thought the palimpsest project at the monestary whose name I forget, would make great finds but I have not heard much about it - the chances of finding substantial works from the great historians is extremely slim.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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