So I hear one of the most popular genre of books to read in ancient Greece was just like transcripts of the debates that were going on at the time. Sounds boring. Unless the debates could get heated and the transcribers could capture that energy well. Is that what it was like? Or were the debates just completely civil and stoic? And if they were, why were they even popular?
First time posting in /lit/ btw. Idk if that matters.
>>25172884Read Plato and Xenophon.
Sounds like it makes perfect sense desu, I mean aren't debates of various kinds a pretty popular form of entertainment today?Also yeah if you read the debates in Plato, or some of the plays by Sophocles and Euripides which also heavily feature arguments, they're pretty amazing.
>>25172884Was there a housing crisis in ancient Greece?Looks like they'd do anything to have a roof over their heads.
>>25174998:|
>>25172884You know that those statues on the Acropolis are not original? You go up there, pay the ticket, get smooshed by the crowds only to be shown some Chinese made copies of those statues. >You want to see the originals? Buy another ticket.I bet they keep the originals in the basement and those on display are also copies. Why won't they let us admire art in situ as it's supposed to be?
>>25175051Only one of them, the third one along I think, is a copy. We have the original version of that here in London, and it's the only one that isn't fucked. You're welcome.
>>25172884In Sparta they would have debates through combat. Not very boring.
>>25175043I'm here all week. Try the veal.
>>25177174>Here in Sparta, we have one method of negotiation!https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ioI-odJn2_0&pp=ygUORGFuZ2VyIDUgdGlnZXI%3Dr/unexpecteddanger5
Socrates DESTROYS Protagoras with FACTS and LOGIC
>>25174998:D
>>25172884It's literally the proto form of 4chan
