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>Platos dialogues: Authored 400-200 BC. Oldest surviving manuscript: 900 AD.
>Plato’s Tetralogies, Authored 400–200 B.C. Oldest surviving manuscript: 900 AD.
>Aristophanes Dialogues, Authored 400-200 BC. Oldest surviving manuscript: 1100 AD.
>Homers Illiad, Authored 800-700 BC. Oldest surviving manuscript: 1000 AD.
>Xenophon manuscripts, Authored 400-200 BC. Oldest surviving manuscript: 1000 AD.

At what point do we stop larping and pretending these "ancient" texts that were written thousands of years after their authored date are anything more than fan fiction of the clergy, littered with the prejudices and biases of the middle ages?

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