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Wayne Boatwright
 
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(Julian9EHP) wrote in
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> In constrast, there are no such copies of Classical manuscripts. With
> all the Roman scriptoria, all the parchments reused in wrappings and
> buried in tombs, the oldest copies of Caesar and Pliny and Aristotle and
> Plato are from Medieval copies. Yet no one doubts their authenticity.


Because they seem to be more firmly anchored in reality.

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Wayne in Phoenix

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