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The Medieval Church · c. 845
The Bibliotheca
Myriobiblos
Photius of Constantinople · c. 815–c. 893
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What it is
Notes on two hundred and eighty books read by the author, each summarised and judged, many of them now lost entirely.
Why it lasted
The greatest work of literary criticism to survive from antiquity or Byzantium, and for many ancient authors the only evidence that they ever existed.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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