how many complete books have survived from the classical Greek era.?

by karbilwtr

and how did they reach us? can any expert give me an example of the journey of a classical book from its time to us? thanks,

trivenefica

Do you mean actual manuscripts dating from that era or texts written during that time that were passed down to us through copies dating from a later era? Most works that we have from antiquity were copied by scribes and the oldest versions of manuscripts that we have date from a much later period that that in which they were first written. For a more in depth look on Greek literature you might want to take a look at Albin Lesky’s A History of Greek Literature.