Aurelius for having real wisdom unlike the rest of those faggots.

>>24861974
>real wisdom
Aurelius was like don't get angry lol and retarded pseuds think he is some genius

I'm ashamed to admit it but I like Euripides the best
My favourite play is Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus though
I know it's plebby but I enjoy Helen a lot because that element of the story always angered me

>>24861990
Prometheus Bond's authorship by Aeschylus is disputed, kek. Anyway, what do you see in that play? I've only read Prometheus Unbound, Antigone and Oedipus Rex and I deem the former the worst, it's too primitive in my opinion. Now I've bought Aeschylus' complete works and will do the same for the other two tragic playwrights, don't call me a pseud please.

>>24861990
>Prometheus Bound
>bro zeus is unfair lol

>>24861996
Why would that make you a pseud? A little less insecurity, please

>>24862008
I was trying to redeem my cockiness in other thread that got too political.

>>24861969
Aeschylus is very uneven. His Agamemnon and Prometheus Bound are brilliant, but Persians and Suppliants are ass. Though tbf Persians were meant to be performed to the music, that might change the feeling of repetitiveness a lot.
Sophocles is very high quality throughout. Not sure if he reaches the heights of Prometheus Bound, but he's at least close.
Haven't read Euripides yet.

Is it an unjust stereotype that Euripides is the ancestor of all redditors?

I don't really get the appeal or point of Sophocles desu. Always seemed to me that he just straightforwardly tells the plots of good myths... and that's it. The others at least had poetic flares or personality

>>24861990
What do you like about Euripides? I can't stand his politics/ethics. Not looking to judge, just trying to understand what people see in him.

Is it an unusual opinion to prefer the tragedians to Homer?

>>24862110
The tragedians are more suitable for the modern taste. In Homer you can tell how ancient it is, especially in the Iliad, because the Odyssey is oftentimes surprisingly modern, I guess that's why the authorship is still debated.

>>24862110
Why do you?

>>24862151
I wouldn't call it ancient, it's more about the mode it's written it. Its single-mindedness pulls attention to the themes, the atmosphere, the language rather than plot twists. Moby-Dick, GR and Blood Meridian all feel spiritually closer to the Iliad than to the Odyssey.

>>24862017
It happens.

>>24862017
You were probably correct. My plan is to inflate as many anon's egos as much as possible to ACCELERATE this boards ultimate demise.

>no mention of the Oresteia
Well I will mention that trilogy then as those plays are kinosauric. For my money, though, it is Sophocles who is the most consistent. I read The Clouds 10 years ago and enjoyed it but I don't remember it well enough to comment, I did however find an Aristophanes anthology recently so I will read all of his stuff soon.

>>24862211
Oresteia is pure kino, it's true.

>>24862201
In the Iliad you have recalls of the whole ancestry for each random character that dies after being shot in the knee. It clearly has some intentions to be a protohistorical recollection of the events so it's less purely literary, in a similar fashion to how in the Bible they tell you the whole ancestry of Jesus to link him to David and justify that he's the Messiah, and we can all agree that the Bible didn't have literary intentions though we can analyse it with literary lens. That trait is not so present in the Odyssey so it's "purer" literature in my opinion.

>>24862310
I saw it as a conscious literary choice. By recalling their ancestry, their dreams and aspirations, Homer humanises and gets you to care about the characters before mercilessly cutting them down. That's where Homer's war gets its pathos; not from showing the death of faceless goons but real people, each of them the protagonist of their own story.
The only exception to me is the litany of ships, which I see as Homer flexing his memory. Remember that Homer couldn't write and he had to recite the entire poem from memory.

>>24861996
>Prometheus Bond's authorship by Aeschylus is disputed, kek
Aww, look at the little Google scholar.

>I've only read Prometheus Unbound...and I deem the former the worst, it's too primitive in my opinion
It's a handful of fragments you pseud retard.

>>24862064
>I don't really get the appeal or point of Sophocles desu. Always seemed to me that he just straightforwardly tells the plots of good myths... and that's it. The others at least had poetic flares or personality
It's hard to see given how our whole understanding of the Oedipus is really Sophocles' presentation of it, but he differs with the other two on how he presents it and with how it was treated in myth (as far as anone can tell). His Oedipus Rex and Antigone have nasty spins on it that make them more brutal, kind of like Shakespeare's take on the Lear story.

>>24862443
Prometheus Unbound was a typo, I meant to say Prometheus Bound, and I still see it as relatively primitive with respect to the two tragedies by Sophocles that I've read. It seems like you are a goblin that smelt a scent of insecurity in me writing

>Now I've bought Aeschylus' complete works and will do the same for the other two tragic playwrights, don't call me a pseud please.

Just like, >>24862008 did, with the difference that he's well-meaning and you are a bitter cuck. You probably don't read either. There you have your (you)

>>24861969
Euripedes is the absolute worst. No, having the gods literally deus ex machina your plot is not profound.

>>24862527
I can tell you're insecure because you think you need to impress by being "in the know" and saying Prometheus Bound is a disputed work (and not knowing dick all about how disputed that claim is). You sound mad, maybe you should take a nappy wappy.

>>24861969
Sophocles, but don't go in there with Freud in mind, that dude was a hack who ruined Sophocles for normal people

>>24862017
redeem this cock in your mouth bitch

>>24861998
If you didn’t catch it, Prometheus Bound is a metaphor for reaching understanding of One. Before Prometheus men are described as being stuck in sense phenomenon - “the ears that do not hear and the eyes which do not see.” Prometheus brings to them fire, the eternal truth whicch exists on a higher level and he is punished for it. The whole thing is a metaphor for going outside of the world as a physical plane and seeing it for its totality.

>>24862050
If you think generalities like “war is bad” and “infidelity is wrong” are Redditisms then yes, he is

>>24861969
1 Aristophanes
2 Aeschylus
3 Sophocles
4 Euripides