Question: Were writings on papyrus still used after the switch? Or did everything have to be transferred to parchment Codex? How strict was the Pagan association; would Roman's feel pagan just for reading something on papyrus?
Comment: The quote I listed is very interesting to me, not only because it is a funny phrase, but because it muddles what is believed to be the start of hand writing in Ancient Greece. I thought it was cool they said the complexities of The Odyssey and Iliad basically confirm that they had written texts as well as oral poems/plays. It puts into perspective how human minds could create so much, but still have very little (like a written book).
Quote: "When Archilochus describes himself as a ‘woeful messenger-stick'... he does not necessarily imply that his epode was transmitted on a piece of papyrus or leather, wrapped round a stick... On the other hand, much of early epic poetry is reflected in both lyric poetry and black-figure vase-painting, Corinthian and Attic, and it seems doubtful whether this can be accounted for by oral transmission... alone..."