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 | | Much has been written, for example, about the destruction of the Library of Alexandria in the 3rd century BC, and the innumerable key texts which are believed to have been lost forever to the flames. |
 | | It can be argued, and has been, that the Roman authors, far from being mindless copycats, improved on the genres already established by their Greek predecessors. |
 | | Among the early written prose Yusuf Has Hajib's "Kutat-Ku Bilik" (Blessings and Wisdom) a book on Turkic philosophy, the "Divan-i Lugat-it Turk" an encyclopedic dictionary written by Mahmut Kasgari and Mir Ali Shir Nava'i the Chaucer of the Turks are early epic masterpieces. |
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