Happened to the Classics as well. I suppose that's how they become classic, through loss of what is not as strong. The logs of Magellan's voyage--one of the r

Happened to the Classics as well. I suppose that's how they become classic, through loss of what is not as strong. The logs of Magellan's voyage--one of the real knight-errants of Spain, who took inspiration from fiction and made it fact--were also lost, I think burned because the mutineers, who returned to Spain, allied with the survivors who brought the treasured spice, and didn't want the truth to come to light. So Pigafetta, the author, rewrote them from memory.