It’s actually very sad from a historical and archeological perspective. We only have a tiny sliver of the past. How much more is just lost to entropy?
Imagine if those works survived
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Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 month ago
People forgot about Anabasis.
bilouba@jlai.lu 1 month ago
Maybe they were absolute trash?
deft@lemmy.wtf 1 month ago
Apparently they were. From my understanding these two got preserved because they were good and so others put effort in collecting them, copying them and distributing them.
PonyOfWar@pawb.social 1 month ago
Homer’s works were the most famous and highly esteemed as the foundation of Greek epics. But I wouldn’t say it means that the other stuff was trash.
It’s sort of like if only Shakespeare got preserved from the modern era. Sure, he’s one of the most famous and widely printed authors of all time, but there’s plenty of other good stuff.
PonyOfWar@pawb.social 1 month ago
Still holding out hope we’ll rediscover some of them on some random charred scroll.
Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 1 month ago
tamal3@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This is really fucking cool. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
snoons@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Such a shame that IT people have only recently adopted multiple backup systems.
MyFriendGodzilla@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That hasnt saved the last 20 years of the net
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 1 month ago
I mean… We do have the Wayback Machine
You can see what the Internet was like in 1996:
brem@lemmy.world 1 month ago You didn’t get the memo?
Now that people are interested in “The Odyssey” again, they are going to demand a sequel.
A singular poem containing the epic end to that epic tale (Telegony) will be re-created on a 1/1 ratio.
This will then be hidden away and turned into a movie (film? I haven’t seen the new one yet. I hear good things. I like the Armand one. Although not enough ship mast at the end ..)
danekrae@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The Odyssey 2 - Odysseer
Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The Odyssey 3 - Hades On Earth
- brem@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Telegony was the original name, but your’s is much catchier.
Let’s also change the name of Odysseus to “Johnny Odd”!
…oh, and the ship is actually a really fast car. No oceans in the sequel. Just Johnny Odd, a couple bros & the open road.
Honestly, the fact that works from thousands of years ago survive and have spread around the world is incomprehensible in terms of what would have to happen over time, particularly prior to the printing press.
The human race really is amazing.
Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 1 month ago
‘From the first written account until the fall of Roman empire’- from Susan Bauer really drove this point home for me. Probably mainly because it made me think about it (like you just did) for the first time. It also make those first few written accounts (kinglist, Gilgamesh) much more special for me.
Even though it’s ‘only’ 4k years old, which less then the blink of an eye on the galactic scale, the amount of effort and capital and determination it requires to still have access to those… Almost mythical. Really amazing.