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    • • Aulus Gellius, John C. Rolfe (trans.), Attic Nights, 6.13, 58-61. File PDF

      Read the English beginning at number 13 ("Whom Marcus Cato calls classici or “belonging to a class,” and whom infia clctssem or “below class.”)"

      Some discussion questions:

      • What do you think a classical text is?
      • What is a classical text according to Gellius?
      • What is an “archive”? Who decides what goes into an archive and what doesn’t?
      • What is “transmission”? How do we get the texts we have?
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