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DarkCrawler posted:Isn't it true that a SHITLOAD of Roman writings were lost? Like a vast majority of the stuff written during their era? The statistic I've heard is that no more than 10,000 words of primary source Roman material have ever been discovered (although I would assume this doesn't cover the Byzantine era). Of course, with Roman literacy being what it was, this is still a huge sight better than most of their contemporaries. Of the Celts that they displaced, there are basically no primary sources at all. If they had a written language, nothing of it survives, and all you have to go on are patchwork ideas from the archaeology and the accounts of Romans who brought armies to kill them.
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Are there any good recommendations for books on the brothel art and dick talismans from Pompeii and Herculaneum? I may have accepted a cordial bet to provide hard evidence that Weird Sex Stuff dates back to antiquity and is not something I personally invented as a way to spoil otherwise nice evenings
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