this is completely incorrect, just FYI “No breakfast,” he said. “B...
seems like if your whole thing is "gleaning wisdom from antiquity" you should maybe know a single fucking thing about it
here's some breakfast discourse from Athenaeus 1.11 (tr. Olson), among however many thousands of pieces of evidence which could be marshaled against the idea that nobody in antiquity ate breakfast Thus spoke the Thessalian w... Also Cantharus (fr. 10):  ... is the midday meal; and do...
anyways

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31 May
Interesting numbers on the size of large private libraries in antiquity:

- Serenus Sammonicus: 62,000 papyrus rolls
- Epaphroditus: 30,000 rolls
- Pamphilius of Caesarea: 30,000 rolls

In comparison, the Serapaeum of Alexandria (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serapeum_…) contained 42,800 rolls
All numbers from Christian Jacob’s “The Web of Athenaeus”, which cites the original sources: chs.harvard.edu/book/jacob-chr…
Also from Jacob: “The physician Galen, one of Athenaeus’ characters, also owned an imposing collection of books, which went up in flames, together with other libraries in the Forum and Palatine areas during the fire of AD 192.”
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