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Day: August 20, 2015

How much writing from ancient Greece is preserved? Is it a finite amount that someone could potentially read?

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Posted in categories: Ancient Greek, Literature

While there are 105 million words in the TLG, most of them are Byzantine. I did a count of the words in the corpus in Lerna VIc: A correction of word form counts in 2009; because there is not massive growth in the number of known ancient texts, the counts still apply. If we define […]

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