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> But they were the only people with the time, and with the access to the resources and labour, to propagate their ideas in multiple copies. Marcus Aurelius didn't publish the book, the book contains thoughts he wrote to himself without any intent to make them public.
Yes, fair. Still, his writings were published after his death by men who felt that what he had to say was important, and that it should be disseminated, and they had access to the means to do so. We only have two copies of full manuscripts with the work, I believe. Without the people who owned and duplicated those books in medieval Greece, who were almost exclusively the elites or hired by the elites, we wouldn't hav…
Thanks for the comment, I didn't know couple of things you mentioned.