Apparently piracy was super common in the bronze age. Why doesn't it show up in any of the major literary works from Greece and Rome? Or the Bible?
>>18002417Thucydides wrote of how common it was.
>>18002417the book got wet
>>18002417Caesar was famously kidnapped by pirates whom he practiced his speeches on while in captivity. They mocked him, but he promised to be back to get them and he did. Every "sailor" and "sea-faring merchant" was a "pirate" in the same way they were all horse thieves and cattle rustlers. It was so common and expected, it went without saying.
>>18002533It stopped being a major thing after pompey killed them all. Only took him 5 years too lol. Dude was amazing.
Stupid cunt.
>>18002533>but he promised to be back to get them and he did....Caesar was raped wasn't he?
>>18002607No, he was gay.
The play "The Rope" by Plautus (c. 254-184 BCE) involves piracy. Plautus was a prolific comedy writer, and The Rope, captures the dizzying changes sweeping Rome after the Second Punic War.
>>18002603The Argonautica as well.
>>18002417There is very little about sea travel in trade in the bible, and piracy would've been regarded as a violation of the general commandments prohibiting theft and murder, so they didn't see any need to write it down
>>18002417Literally one of the first things Thucydides talks about is how their ancestors were massive pirates
>>18002417>Why doesn't it show up in any of the major literary works from Greece and Rome?Because pirates and bandits were a subject of low fiction, which basically nobody reads or knows about outside of academia.
>>18002603>>18002615>piracy is when boats
>>18003405>piracy is when you use a boat to attack other people and steal their stuff
>>18002417illyrian pirates?
>>18002611"The Queen of Bythenia", or so his own men called him.
>>18003405Tell me anon, what was Jason's mission?
>>18002417>the BibleThe Philistines are descendants of Aegean sea raiders
People did write about them, in fact, literary writers of later periods either didn’t know the recast them into heroic narratives.
