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- From: alderson@elaine46.Stanford.EDU (Rich Alderson)
- Subject: Re: How many volumes would all Greek writings fill?
- In-Reply-To: ph600fcy@sdcc14.ucsd.edu (Matthew Harrington)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.015048.23030@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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- Reply-To: alderson@elaine46.Stanford.EDU (Rich Alderson)
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 01:50:48 GMT
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- In article <41281@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>, ph600fcy@sdcc14 (Matthew Harrington) writes:
- >If someone compiled all of the literature, philosophy, history, etc., written
- >in classical Greek, how many volumes would this be? Let us say that a volume
- >is the size of an Encyclopedia Brittanica volume, with which most people will
- >be familiar.
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- Well, the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, with all the texts from Homer to 600 AD,
- covers 1 CD-ROM. I think the EB is about the same size, isn't it?
- --
- Rich Alderson 'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take
- such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
- --J. R. R. Tolkien,
- alderson@leland.stanford.edu _The Lost Road_
-