I've seen photographies of this fresco dozens of times, even studied it (superficially) in some art history class, but for the first time I've realized that anc

I've seen photographies of this fresco dozens of times, even studied it (superficially) in some art history class, but for the first time I've realized that ancient Greeks did not have paper, much less books. I imagine Raphael and his contemporaries didn't know as much about ancient Greece as we do today. OTOH the printing press was still fairly recent so Raphael must have been conscious that books were not commonly available centuries before him. My point is that this depiction of ancient Greece might have been deliberately fantastic which is something I had never thought before about Renaissance art.