One word for those Christian barbarians; in a way we are lucky. There are too damn many books in the world as it is. What in the hell would we do with 100+ more plays by Aeschylus and Sophocles?
And if we had the complete works of Sappho we would never have had that wonderfullittle poem:
Papyrus
Spring . . . . . . .
Too long . . . . . .
Gongula . . . . . .
Carrol