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Was this "The Avengers" of the ancient world?
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>>23327602
No
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>>23327602
I never saw the avengers but I read the Iliad. They were just pagans.
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>>23327602
Yes
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it's the Sneed's Feed & Seed of the bronze age
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Sort of, in the way that both are these collections of "All these heroes with their own backstories get together to duke it out in the world-ending conflict"

>>23327777
Proof^
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>>23327602
It was humanity's first attempt. Marvel pefected it.
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I know this is bait but if you think they're at all comparable you're a hylic/demon
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>>23328058
Based
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>>23327602
Yes but in like an ironic way.
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>>23327602
kys
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>>23327602
Which edition has the most smirks, mary sues, "he is standing right behind me" tier convos and shawarma eating scenes?
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No characters in the Iliad were as memorable as Tony Stark
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>>23327602
>The leaders of the good guys were actually le bad
Crockery. Anyway this is why Achilles needs to be a black dude wearing a goldcolored wig.
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Yes, and that's why Plato considered it degenerated slop.
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>>23328402
>Yes, and that's why Plato considered it degenerated slop.
I need a peer-reviewed source for that.
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>>23328419
>t. didn't read Plato's Republic
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>>23328425
Not peer-reviewed.
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>>23327602
The avengers don't chop people up and and splatter blood,shit, guts and brains everywhere
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>>23328425
Was Plato peer reviewed?
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>>23328402
>Plato considered it degenerated slop.
Plato considered it to be the most beautiful piece of art ever produced which is precisely why it was so dangerous. His ontology doesn't allow for "degenerated slop" to matter. Go read a book.
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>>23327602
Greeks > marvel
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>>23327602
If Avengers was this good, i'd watch it
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>>23328463
That is such a comfy looking add I want to go out and buy a minitel machine in 2024.
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>>23327602
no wtf, its way too morally grey and tragic. in terms of pop culture slop its closer to game of thrones than anything else
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I'm a peer and I reviewed him.
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>>23329823
Well Socrates was reviewed by his peers at the Athenian court. There is that. Plato was reviewed by his peers in Syracuse when Dionysius I tried to run him out.



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