>Start with the Geeks!No, I will not.
>>25591146That's a good place to start too
>>25591146Why not start at the beginning?
Marduk dabbing on Tiamat was pretty kino. Shooting an arrow into her stomach was based.
Start with the Romans.
>the "Geeks"
>>25591146Yes, you will.
The correct way is to start with your favorite philosopher, read and get confused and only then go read the prequels to get the context. This way you are motivated off the get go and get to build an image backwards
>>25591379How do I "read" this?
>>25591379the paintings at lascaux etc are genuinely incredible. i think picasso saw them once and said ‘we’ve learned nothing since’.
>>25592002;)
>>25591146START AT THE BEGINNINGPROGRESS THROUGH THE MIDDLEEND AT THE ENDING
>>25591146the point of starting with the greeks was never about starting with the oldest. they’ve just been the basis of western education for millennia. it’s about getting a classical education.
>>25592032>the point of starting with the greeks was never about starting with the oldestWords of wisdom have been spoken.
>>25592032the fact this isn't obvious anymore is further proof of this shithole's downfall
>>25592032>getting a classical education.Trying to do so is larping. You received Prussian education, deal with it
>>25592032>they’ve just been the basis of western education for millennia.Western literati between the late Roman empire and the renaissance could not read Greek at all thoughbeit.
>>25592008Just go with the flow
>>25592632>You received Prussian educationI wish.
>>25592705true as a general rule in the latin west. greek thought was still foundational.
>>25592008Mushroom and dick out.
>>25591284Not really. There are reasons to “start with the Greeks” other than just “it’s old”
>>25592032 /thread
>>25592017Considering that faggot made elementary school level "art", it's his problem and not everybody else's.
>>25594296except for when he was actually in elementary school and he painted realism.
>>25592632No.
If you want to start with something simply because it's older, but more irrelevant then go ahead lol
>>25594336>irrelevantThe Epic of Gilgamesh and the Enuma Elish hold ancestral memory that got mythologized and later adopted by semitic tribes into the myth of Genesis in the Old Testament. Enkidu the wild man tamed by a female is a parallel to Eve making Adam fall from a pure, inocent, primal form (paleolithic hunter-gatherer homo sapiens) to the struggle of civilization because females were cherry pickers and thus had to be the ones starting agriculture. The fall of man was the agricultural revolution and the Epic of Gilgamesh collects that ancestral memory just as graceful as it does the flood, which also appears in the Enuma Elish, probably a relic of the last Ice Age.
>>25591146everything else is just a bad copy
>>25592032>Start with the Liang Metanduno cave paintings.
>>25594485someone already made that joke >>25591379
>>25594447Finding the source of "derivatives" is a bastardized finding of parallels from a mutual source.
>>25591146test
>>25594336>Sumerian and Akkadian literature>more irrelevantLiterature board ladies and gentlemen
>>25594520More irrelevant than the Greeks, yeah.
>>25594447he said ‘more irrelevant’, it’s clearly more irrelevant than the greeks. poetry, philosophy, drama, politics and science aside, i don’t see chris nolan making a gilgamesh film.
>>25594564>>25594576Where did you guys find an objective scale for the relevance of entire cultures spanning millenia?
>>25594589Is that what it would take for you to recognize that one is more impactful than the other? Have you tried using your mind and eyes?
>>25594576>i don’t see chris nolan making a gilgamesh filmHe didn't make an Odyssey movie either. His goyslop film is nothing but part of the broad American Disneyfication of literature where they take classics and dillute them into sludge for the cattle to enjoy.
>>25594646Poopy fart shit *prrrrrrrrrrt* - farting slide whistle
>>25594647Nice contribution to the thread, faggot. Now go eat some crayons.
>>25594589are you under the impression relevance is subjective? i’m not saying one is better; if we’re discussing the foundations of western tradition, the greeks are more directly relevant
>>25594646yeah i wasn’t inviting anyone to get on their soapbox about it (though i will add that the iliad and odyssey were composed to be public entertainment), but it’s still read & enjoyed, its style and motifs are still used and recognised, in fact, to greater or lesser degree, all novels are descendants of the second homeric epic. the first 'proper modern novel', quixote, is a close brother to the odyssey.
>>25591284WHAT, ON HIS CARPET?HAVE SOME PRIDE AND BED YOUR WOMAN IN BED, MAN
