Why does only one Latin novel survive but four ancient Greek ones survive and in general why do sometimes almost useless writings survive from classical antiquity and things like poems and novels don't?

by spinosaurs70

Persanolly I have my own persanol theroy

[Medival monks in a monastry]

Good day sir, in our library I found a copy of Satyricon , it is sadly quite degraded being barely legible but I can still copy and peserve it for futrute monks said the monk

No sir, we have to copy Aristotle today and tommrow , his work remains a useful guide for kings still said the other monk

But, we have 2o copies of several of his works in our library already , and copy one a month anyway.

NO, get back to work and copy aristole or I will make you become a blacksmith

Fine

[the manusdcript gets lost in a fire and never gets copied]

CommodoreCoCo

What "almost useless writing" are you talking about?