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To: Hank Rearden

She was one of the most revered poets of the Classical world. Her poems, like all of the famous poems of the period, were read and usually memorized by the educated Greeks and Romans. However, after the Empire became Christian, the monks who copied texts decided that hers were too immoral and they destroyed basically all of them. That's why, if we can find her works, we find them reused in another function or in garbage heaps in Egypt.


39 posted on 06/26/2005 1:54:55 PM PDT by classicsguy
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To: classicsguy

Odd. The snippets posted here don't sound that much different than the Song of Solomon.


64 posted on 11/17/2005 1:06:00 PM PST by Netheron
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