Description
One of the impressive facts about the history of Western culture is that we can still read large amounts of the literature produced in classical Greece and Rome despite the fact that all copies had to be produced by hand for at least a millennium and a half, and were subject to dangers such as flood, fire, and war. This book explains how the texts survived through time and gives an account of the reasons why it was considered worthwhile to spend the necessary effort to preserve them for future generations.
